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From: ben@moncol.UUCP (Bennett Broder)
Newsgroups: net.audio
Subject: Re: Interconnect cables
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Date: Sat, 13-Jul-85 13:38:16 EDT
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Posted: Sat Jul 13 13:38:16 1985
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>After talking to audio salesmen today, I ran out and bought Monster
>Cable Interlink 4 cables for my preamp, amp, etc.  I'm skeptical
>about this crap, but I'm hopelessly compulsive, with money to burn,
>so who cares?  I noticed a little arrow on the cable to tell you
>which way the signal should flow.  This leads to a question:
>Can anyone out there tell me how an electrical current can flow 
>differently down a cable in one direction than in the other
>without violating the symmetry properties of Maxwell's equations?
>I was too embarrassed to asked the salesman, cause he seemed pretty
>smart...

The arrows on the cable have nothing to do with the direction of
current flow.  On high end cables like the Monster, the shield is
only connected on one end;  the arrows insure that it is grounded
to the correct component.

Ben Broder
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