Another look at directionality in cables

I did that once unknowingly & about went nuts trying to figure out what was wrong with the highs. Tried all kinds of things to fix it & had finally given up. Then one day when I was fooling around back there I discovered my error, & much to my surprise the grainy hf's normalized when the cables were corrected. My own blind test, & I didn't even realize that I'd done it. Proved it to me...

Actually, what I was refering to was a set of speaker cables where you have an individual conductor to each speaker terminal from the amp. Instead of having + and - wires in one jacket, you have a + wire and a - wire such as Tara Labs uses. For a single run to each speaker, you have 2 individual conductors isolated from each other in their on jacket. Tara marks there's with an arrow on each wire. My question is why would you run each conductor in the same direction as Tara indicates? They show no reference to which wire goes to which terminal. They give you 4 wires, each having an arrow. It appears that(using Sean's theory, which is correct) you would want one wire going one way and the other pointed the other way. This would only be possible with speaker wire because interconnect actual use a single center conductor(s) with the other wire or shield to ground. When you have both wires in a single jacket, I wonder how the manufactures actually orient them in respect to flow using the "U" theory Sean spoke of? The power starts at one point heading one direction (first half cycle) on the positive lets say, goes threw the speaker coil(s) and returns on the negative. As the example shows, one arrow should point towards the speaker and one the other way. Not both the same direction. It then reverses direction for the other half cycle. As the example shows, one arrow should point towards the speaker and one the other way. Not both the same direction. RED >>>>>>>>>>>SPEAKER COIL>>>>>>>>>>BLACK then reverses RED <<<<<<<<<<< SPEAKER COIL <<<<<<<<<< BLACK
The black and red represent the amp terminals and connected to like on the speaker. Hope you follow what I'm trying to say.
Also, one quick note. It would seem that Harmonic Technology and Acoustic Zen would have something on the ball with single crystal wire. I think this would eliminate a lot of the effects of electrical flow and break in Sean refers to.

I would like to get on the Bundus bandwagon here. Energy in the form of electromagnetic waves travel down the cable from the amp to the speaker where they are converted into mechanical energy (the cone moves). The fact that current is flowing in the wire or which direction it is flowing at any given point in time is not the issue. Since the energy goes in only one direction, from the amp to the speaker, it stands to reason that the orientation of the cable will have some effect on this energy transfer.

There are only four possible variations for hooking up the Tara cables you mentioned. Try them all and see which you prefer.

This (transmission line theory) is a very complex subject that many textbooks and college courses are dedicated to. I don't pretend to understand all the high level math and physics required to master it. I do know you will drive your yourself crazy trying to figure out what the electrons are doing in the wires.

And the winner is...XLR balanced interconnects. Don't ever have to worry about the directionality of these puppies!

Going to a balanced design over a single ended design does not necessarily remove conductor directionality from the equation. Any type of signal carrying device is subject to signal degradation via several different types of problems. Sean
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