Directional interconnect cables

Here's some food for thought

Food? Sure I'll have a slice of pie. Man this liqueur is heady stuff.

As for directional interconnects, let's stick to hard facts - the connection is key - and everyone knows that either way round works. Although a shield grounded at one end is advisable, especially if you are not sure of what RF/EM you might pick up.

And while your at it, Carl, is there any tea left in the celestial teapot? I'd love a cup!

Plenty of celestial tea for all, shall I pour?

Now where is that teapot?.....

Some folks sure like to argue, I am not interested in starting another one. I just have two questions:
i have a Rotel 1580 preamp going to a Rotel 1590 amp. I use a decent cd player going into the preamp. I connect the cd player to preamp and preamp to amp with Transparent Musiclinks. I connect cd player to preamp in the direction indicated on the cable. But when I connect the preamp to amp the same “right” direction (the direction of the flow), it sounds horrible. A 2 year old would say so. But, when I eeverse the preamp to amp cable, it sounds great.
1. Why?
2. Am I going to hurt anything?
I would greatly appreciate some guidance from those who clearly know more than I. I was ready to sell my musiclink cables until I tried the reverse direction from pre to amp. Now, I love them. Thanks.

I should add that I am using RCA all around.

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