Arrows on my cables, Can you explain ?

[NightOwl]

There are also cables that the manufacturer deems directional because of some property of the wire (direction that the wire was drawn, grain structure, etc.). One example is Omega Mikro interconnects from Mapleshade (link below).

On the one hand the "science" behind the design is nebulous at best and smacks of magic.
On the other hand the interconnects sound very good.

Absolute Phase

 

[nick_charles]

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Originally Posted by Stoin /img/forum/go_quote.gif If they are working to reduce RFI then the conditions you were testing under become important. If you did this test under nice controlled conditions with very low RFI then the differences would be minimal, if detectable. Sit some of the cable between some CRTs and maybe add a few mobile phones and the results could (should if the technology works) be different.

That is a very fair point. My set-up is as follows. My house wiring is 50 year old ungrounded (I use a cheater plug for the first six plug strip) my listening stack is 4 CD players one on top of another some fed from one six plug strip others from a second six plug strip connected to the first. On top of the top CD player is a DAC . a switchbox and a headphone amp. The whole stack sits next to the wireless phone station. There is a jungle of wiring (power cables and analog RCA and digital coax) behind and then the analog output lead stretches across the stack and feeds to the ADC which balances next to my laptop. There are multiple wall-warts in the set-up i.e , DAC, headphone amp and wireless Phone dock plus the adaptor for the laptop. So I guess you could say it is less than optimal

 

[Stoin]

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Originally Posted by nick_charles /img/forum/go_quote.gif That is a very fair point. My set-up is as follows. My house wiring is 50 year old ungrounded (I use a cheater plug for the first six plug strip) my listening stack is 4 CD players one on top of another some fed from one six plug strip others from a second six plug strip connected to the first. On top of the top CD player is a DAC . a switchbox and a headphone amp. The whole stack sits next to the wireless phone station. There is a jungle of wiring (power cables and analog RCA and digital coax) behind and then the analog output lead stretches across the stack and feeds to the ADC which balances next to my laptop. There are multiple wall-warts in the set-up i.e , DAC, headphone amp and wireless Phone dock plus the adaptor for the laptop. So I guess you could say it is less than optimal

To me that sounds like a fairly real world set-up. The kind where if these wires are going to offer a benefit to most people, they should be. Otherwise they're really for people who have serious problems with interference (assuming the technology works).

 

[Happy Camper]

I didn't do it. It was like that when I saw em.


My Red Dawns are directional as well. As mentioned, it has to do with the design function.

 

[Roger.McMurphy]

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Originally Posted by olblueyez /img/forum/go_quote.gif I bet if I go lookin back at their profiles I would be able to tell why they know nothing about too.

Profiles, profiles, profiles, profiles...

Yes, you probably could.

Doesn't say a thing about judgment, though...

In my opinion, posts usually speak for themselves. You like people comments, or you don't. There is no need to try to discredit them. I'm not talking about anyone, but many people here regularly shoot themselves in the foot.

Experienced, or not.