So you think wire conductors in cables are directional? Think again...

yogiboy3,973 posts05-13-2021 1:09pmFrom Chord!
Almost all speaker cables, in fact almost all audio cables, be they for digital or analogue are, in our experience, directional in that the sound will be better with the cable connected in a specific direction. Chord speaker cables should be connected so that the print on the cable reads in the direction of the signal.

Especially if the cable is outfitted with male and female connectors at each end. Low impedance mic cables and balanced interconnects come to mind...because that is required to actually connect the cables. For unbalanced coaxial style cables grounded at each end, with the same type of connector at each end, the direction does not matter. Speaker cables terminated with different connectors at each end are obviously directional as to how it's connected. Bare wire...does not matter. 

Science does not exist to prove or disprove human experience. Science is nothing more than a method that is has been proven to be the most reliable one for eventually figuring out how the world works.

Please do try and keep these different ideas separate and clear in your mind. If you can just manage to do this one thing it will be amazing how much more clear your understanding of so many things will become over time. Not now, maybe not tomorrow, but gradually over time.

@millercarbon

Welcome to your Grand Delusion.

Q:  What did the capacitor say to the resistor?

A:  You just caused me to discharge.

"A Colt 45 and Two Zig Zags - baby".

DeKay

djones,
Has your side of the aisle ever asked you to stop helping them? In your entire life have you ever produced an applicable analogy?

Kind of funny the RF folks now are criticizing about cable directional.  RF folks are known for their measurements so they have to live and die by it.
If you insist on measurement, you got to put up or shut up.

In RF, there is something called "insertion loss" or RF people would call it "SD21" or "SD12".  SD21 is the insertion loss in one direction whereas SD12 is insertion loss in the other direction.  And these are never the same especially in RF.  You measure insertion loss in one direction, then the other direction, and the results are close but never the same.

Also if RF folks also are making fun of cable lifters, remember that RF cables are very sensitive to the cable bending.  If you bend the cable just slightly, your SD21 will change.  Expensive RF cables are less sensitive but they all are.  

You see, there a lot of these voodoo scientists ... errr... I meant "objectivist".  They keep pounding on the word "measurements", but they themselves can't withstand close scrutiny.  A lot of these people are using the word "measurement" as a mean to an agenda but a lot of them don't know what they are talking about.