Furutech Nanoflux speaker cables

@stephenjfoster For some reason you seem to think there is an element of religion or faith involved in any of this while forgetting that science is based on observation and experience.  Now I agree with you that subjective experience should be viewed with skepticism.  And a simple model of electricity would assume that LCR (inductance, capacitance, and resistance) is adequate to explain how cables work. That would suggest that all cables with identical LCR are the same. In fact, there are all sorts of credible explanations about how changes in the geometry, materials, shielding, and quality of construction can impact the signal.  Figuring out which, if any of them, are true isn't something I care about.

I started the journey buying spools of 12AWG OFC copper from Amazon.  It is only my experience based on years of critical listening and hundreds of level matched A-B comparisons that ever caused my hard earned dollars to be spent on anything as frivolous as cables.  

For me, the bottom line is even though I am not religious, if God appeared before me you can be d*mn sure I would change my mind and become a believer (after checking for mental illness).  You could discount it as my subjective experience, in the same way you discount that cables can make a difference, but for me it would simply become a new fact about the world.

You might want to spend a moment on self-reflection.  You aren't an audiophile and you haven't posted any information that any well educated person who has spent a week in this hobby doesn't already know.  For some reason you made strident and insulting posts that assume everybody else is stupider and less informed than you are.  Maybe your ex-wife is right?

I was looking at my Furetech cable splitters and they have an arrow on them, it's hard to see but it's there.  

@pinwa 

You and my ex-wife may be right, but I am at peace with myself. I'm aware I have many faults and much to learn.

Never said you were stupid; you are obviously very intelligent and may well be smarter than me.

Never commented on sound quality. Simply stated that any cable that carries an Alternating current signal can't be directional. I stand by that statement. The connectors may only fit one way, that's a mechanical thing, not electrical.

I hold 3 degrees in science, and what you're doing ain't science!

The Scientific method requires:

1. Formulation of a theory

2. BLIND testing of the theory (something audiophiles never agree to)

3. Obtaining Quantifiable, repeatable results (not subjective or observations)

4, Publication of your methods and results

5. Review by your peers (i.e. other scientists need to be able to repeat your results)

I'm done. Wasted too much time trying to convince a true believer. I guess I'm not that bright after all.

@stephenjfoster,

I could not agree more. My speaker cables cost me a few hundred bucks and I over spent on that. I have been listening to music for many years on many systems and have never found a speaker cable that made a sonic difference. 

@pinwa 

When you wrote " It isn't like I don't understand the basic physics and electrical engineering that supposedly governs what a cable can and can't do" I came to the conclusion you might be a physicist.  You said Wilson puppies needed spade connectors and elsewhere you have described blowing up several of their tweeters, so I assumed these might be the speakers you were using.

I would like to believe you when you say the cables are directional.  Usually this means cables are shielded and only one end of the shield is grounded, and this normally applies to interconnects.  On Furutech's website there is a diagram which indicates the speaker cable is shielded, but there is no indication of whether the shield is grounded!  There is the equivalent of a choke which removes some EMI.  The main conductors seem very close together, so I suspect this is a high capacitance cable which rolls of some high frequencies.

By the way, I use spade connectors on my Quad electrostatics (ESL-2905) which are regarded as very accurate transducers and have amplifier-like specifications.  In a rash moment I bought a secondhand cable set with banana connectors for my KEF Reference 1 speakers.  I have not got around to bi-wiring or cable swapping because I am very happy with what I am hearing!