Speaker cable arrows???


I bought a used pair of Silverline Audio's Conductor cables. Plugged them in 
and was very pleased with the neutral sound I was getting. Bare wire to the 
speakers, and bananas on the amp end. Then I realized that the arrows on 
the cables where pointing towards the amp. OOPS, I reversed the path 
direction, and couldn't hear any difference. Zero.
My preference would be to have the bananas on the amp end.

Can I disobey the arrows, and run the cables effectively backwards?

markj941
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.
When you had the cables connected against the arrows did the music play backwards? 
^ Not only that, when I had one cable connected against the arrow and one connected with the arrow things got out of control.  Started hearing secret messages in music that was recorded with the same mixed arrow directionality.