Speaker cable arrows???

bob540117
Oh my! This question really gave me a start . . directional speaker cables?! I didn’t check for arrows — did I do this WRONG! Odds are good . . . Yes! I messed up, again!

Then I remembered that my cables are for bi-wiring and there is only one way to connect them. That was a close one!

>>>>Not so fast, Bob. All cables - including ones with dissimilar connectors like power cords, HDMI cables and bi-wiring cables - should be controlled for directionality during the manufacturing process, like Audioquest does, for example. Thus, when the dissimilar connectors are attached, the cable will be in the correct orientation directionality wise. It’s not rocket science. 🚀 

The greatest mystery surrounding wire directionality has not been discussed on this forum.

It is why all the posts made by the many of us who prefer our speaker cables inserted with the arrows pointing towards the amplifiers and our fuses inserted in the opposite direction of most have had our posts deleted?  Which of you are reporting us to the mods?  Is it too much to bare that we like our cables installed in the reverse direction?

wolf_garcia
My simple point that Kaitty can’t understand is that the component wires and traces will NEVER be checked for "directionality" because in that context it simply doesn’t matter...at all...dude!

>>>>That’s about the twentieth time you said that. It’s still not true. I’m only referring to drawn wire when I say all wire is directional. Are traces directional? Are connectors directional? You decide. Besides the high end industry never got the memo on directionality so of course they won’t check for it. Duh!

Total and complete BS. If you hear a difference it is all in your mind. Music is an AC signal. Electrons go back and forth. Show me a difference in impedance one way or the other. You can't even with the most sensitive instruments.
Back in the 80s MIT and I think they were the first to start making directional interconnect cables, were supposed to be the best and they were really big and fat and had the nicest RCAs on them. So, I bought several pairs and dutifully oriented the arrows in the right direction. A computer nerd/ audiophile buddy of mine laughed. So I got blinded and he started swapping the preamp to amp cables back and forth  haphazardly. In a notebook on each page I wrote a B for better and a W for worse. There was no correlation what so ever and I was really stretching to make out a difference anyway, never really sure. 
Yes, pulling wire changes the metal lattice structure and electrons could care less. So, as far as I am concerned it is a marketing scam. I would also bet that the manufacturer has no idea which way the wire is going. They just print arrows on the insulation to keep up with the Jones. If you go out and buy the absolute best bulk wire like a Canare product there is never little arrows on it. 
The problem for audiophiles is that most of us do not have an extended scientific background and usually do not hang out with those that do. It is not that we are dumb, we just don't speak that language. So, we hear something that seems to make sense, and usually there is a small element of truth in there, and buy it hook line and sinker. Then, 1/2 of us really do think we hear a difference and the myth gets wings. Many times when I really thought I could hear a difference I was just fooling myself. Blinded there was none. The mythologists may laugh at me which is fine. They are the ones who are the suckers.