directional cables?

I ran across this white paper about a year ago. It may be of interest to you EEs and such.

Smoke and mirrors.

"We have presented a new distortion model that accurately predicts the audible behavior of the various metals in common use for audio applications."

Pretty neat trick given that to date no one has established actual audible differences among cables save for the well known effects of resistance, inductance and capacitance when they're severe enough to cause differences within known thresholds of hearing.

Cables should always be oriented in the same direction as your HiFi tuning fuses

Nice thread-thanks for the responses.

Herman, Then let's see your facts about arrows and cable orientation because every cable I have had experience with in the last couple of decades uses this standard. Maybe you found some fly by night cable company working out of their garage that got their arrows mix up.

Tbromgard, The arrows point in the direction the signal is flowing. If there are no arrows the writing on the cable follows the direction of the signal.