Directional cables kind of make sense in an analogue, single-ended connection if it’s about the shielding being connected to ground only on one side… although I haven’t tried it in practice. Still, it has nothing to do with signal directionality, just noise rejection. The ground lift switch on some devices does the same.
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deadbeef79000@lemmy.nz 3 weeks ago
Audiophile are the stupidest conceited fopls who have ever been parted from their money.
Don’t forget your Audiophile grade cat5e cables for your NAS! Plug them in the right way though so the arrows point away from the NAS!
kamen@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
MutilationWave@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 weeks ago
Unidirectional cables are very silly. I fixed a 300 foot unidirectional HDMI installed backwards during construction. I had to army crawl over ductwork.
zqps@sh.itjust.works 3 weeks ago
For HDMI this is common with active optical cables.
ZILtoid1991@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
I can imagine directional active cables, but not passive ones.