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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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andy2
To make things a bit more complicated, a speaker cable exists in a three dimensional space, therefore the electro-magnetic energy not necessarily confined as in a 2 dimensional circuit diagram for example.

>>>>>I’m pretty sure that has been covered already. Ad nauseam, actually. We have Poynting vectors up the wazoo.
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andy2
And to make things even more complicated, an AC current is not AC that is it is not symmetric. Some of its aspect is sort of like a DC current.

>>>>That is interesting. How does it affect directionality, or does it?
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Cables, inductors, capacitors, resistors, power cords, transformers, fuses. They’re all conductors. And all wire is inherently better-sounding in one direction vs the other. It’s not really brain 🧠 surgery.
heaudio123
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Geoff, nice to see you still have your square peg this morning. Same hammer?


Andy I think L1 and L2 would have been enough.
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