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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
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heaudio123
689 posts
 
Don't ask me, I can't even get it out of the roll without putting a ton or kinks in it ;-)

Oh crap my home depot wire is not marked with the direction I should install them. Does anyone know which direction will work best? I'm freaking out here.

heaudio123
689 posts
 
And if you are late on a customer deliverable, they will travel anywhere but where you want them to be.

In digital circuits the signal and energy travel in the
spaces between the traces or between the traces and the conducting surfaces.

... but I digress.
The energy travels primarily outside the conductors as that is where the fields are, but the fields are a function of the properties of the conductors and the dielectric.
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geoffkait
23,365 posts
 
How much energy is outside the conductor and how much inside the conductor? If it 80% - 20%? Maybe 50% - 50%? 95% - 5%? If most of the “energy” travels outside the conductor please explain all the heartburn over skin effect, for which very high frequencies travel closer to the surface and lower frequencies travel deeper inside the conductor. Also, frequencies of what? Thanks in advance.
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