Directional interconnect cables

musicnoise must have slept at a Holiday Inn

Musicnoise - as you can see my post was not a joke (part about expensive electrons was). Electromagnetic wave moves in 60-70% of the speed of light but electrons are almost not moving. Small impurities create tiny semiconductor like junctions. It is not possible to measure them since things are happening on the level of microvolts here (-80dB). The way they are oriented may be dependant on cable manufacturing (how cable was drawn). I am speculating here, not knowing exactly what is happening inside. I just wanted to make point that things are much more complicated than we think. Some manufacturers make cables from nine nines copper (99.9999999% pure) and in addition cooling it in hot forms to avoid rapid cooling and crystaline structure (Zero Crystal Copper). Wire like that has one or no crystals per foot while standard oxygen free copper wire has couple of thousand. On the other hand some people buy speaker wire i Home Depot.

Kijanki
"..... wires are diodes....."

Wires are NOT diodes. If anything, they are capacitors, either shielded or twisted pair.

I believe some people may hear a difference when the cable is reversed. This doesn't mean the cable is directional. It means the cable has burned-in in that direction and reversing it undoes all that......

HA ha that is where you are wrong 04rdking, burn in has nothing to do with directionality of the wire. It most likely has to do with the last direction the wire was pulled through the dies before dielectric was applied.

04rdking - Many people don't believe in burning-in either. Common measurements done with Ohmeter, Voltmeter etc get a little bit fuzzy when done at -100dB.

First solid state amps had bright edgy sound, while their manufacturers were proving (measurements) superiority over tube amps - later Transient Intermodulation and other effects were discovered. All I'm saying is that wire might have "some" directional properties and trust cable companies - they certainly know more and have more experience.