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Electrons do not flow through a wire. if they did, they would be collecting at the end wires. Boy they would be fat. LOL
If you think electrons flow through the wire, you need to study more
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Directional wires/cables
Is there any reason to support the idea that cables, interconnects or any other kind of wiring can be considered directional? It seems that the theory is that carrying current will alter the molecular structure of the wire. I can't find anything that supports this other than in the case of extreme temperature variation. Cryo seems to be a common treatment for wire nowadays. Extreme heat would do something as well, just nothing favorable. No idea if cryo treatment works but who knows. Back to the question, can using the wires in one direction or another actually affect it's performance? Thanks for any thoughts. I do abide by the arrows when I have them. I "mostly" follow directions but I have pondered over this one every time I hook up a pair.
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I respect the directionality of my cables whether it does anything or not. Just makes me feel better. I did buy some amazing Kimber 8PR (Their "bottom" line, improved from previous model, sound astonishingly good and a serious bargain) speaker cable last year and they're NOT directional it seems. Allegedly they develop directionality later...to keep 'em honest, spades on the speaker end and bananas to the amp using their "special" solder sent with the connectors. |
Seems confusing. I bought some higher quality cat6 cable to my system and read that they should be oriented from the source to the sound, or words to that effect. So, from the wall is “source”… to a switch. The next short run is to a Roon and a second run to a DAC. Think of a letter Y. I was not sure with my short, fancy and fairly pricy cables which way to put them in to the Roon and the DAC; after all, that Roon signal is bidirectional. I ended up placing the DAC connection as going from the switch to the DAC. But I’m still not sure what to do with the Roon. If all Systems worked in series it’s be easy. But if the signal is bidirectional - who knows? |
An electric current IS the flow of electrons (through a wire e.g.) from the -ve source, through the destination and then back to the +ve terminal of the source.
See this article
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