Who Here Makes Their Own Power Cables?

Guess I flunked. I use a lot of Duelund stranded and tinned copper wire in cotton for ICs, speaker cables, USB and DC cables. No markings on this Duelund wire. The newer 600v 12 gauge bulk wire for power cords has printing on it. Heck if I have detected a difference in sound in any of Duelund wire in one direction or the other. 

Gets complicated as break in also plays a role.  

Just because there are no arrrows 🔜 doesn’t mean a wire or cable isn’t directional. They’re all directional.

Hey, granny, from somewhere in cyberspace,

Exhibit A

“Duelund VSF Capacitors are indeed great, but what most uses don’t realize is they are very much directional. In one direction they will sound disjointed, rough, strangely unmusical less involving, the frequency curve does not sound flat and lacking the usual lovery fullness in the lower midrange. I must say i could not stand them in the wrong orientation, they can go from magnificent to ordinary just by flipping the cap around. What is amazing is that no one seems to have even fingered this out, so much for these supposed experts who tell us what to buy regarding internal components. Even resistors (most if not all), are directional and that direction change does not mean it sounds bad, just different.”

Agree on the wire and cap  directionality.  Heard it on Duelund and other caps. Just have not heard it on the Duelund stranded wire as yet. 

Agree on the wire and cap  directionality.  Heard it on Duelund and other caps. Just have not heard it on the Duelund stranded wire as yet.

Stranded wire is not necessarily directional, only if all the strands are controlled during manufacture to be in the same direction. Without knowing for sure I’d guess the strands probably are all in the same direction. But if they were in random directions, not all the same, that would certainly explanation n why there’s no difference in direction. Audioquest controls all their cables and cords for directionality, including stranded cables and cords. I suspect Duelund is unaware of wire directionality.