What do the arrows mean on my cable?

Arrows are supposed to indicate signal direction.

I’m having great success using an Audio Envy for SPDIF.

Go figure.

Digital coax is either RCA and/or BNC. In any event digital has much bigger bandwidth and SHOULD be RG6 (equivalent) or better.

I spoke with Audience on this. They told me it is just a guide for people to reconnect the cables the same direction when they disconnect and reconnect. Flipping the direction of the cable is fine, it just takes some time to settle in if you do that. If you reconnect in the same manner as the original connection there is no need for the cable to resettle.

@yyzsantabarbara 

That makes the most sense to me. I would say reducing resettling. This has always amazed me… but fiddling around with cables requires them to “settle down”. One more thing experience teaches and no amount of thinking about it is going to get you there.

I thought I read that in interconnects one side can be connected to ground, which makes direction an issue. Am I making this up or is it a thing?

Use XLR's and you'll never have a problem wondering which end is up :-)