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straight wire Maestro and Maestro II signal flow?

I am not sure if any of you can help me out with this or not, but it's worth a shot. So Here it is. I have two pairs of Straight wire Maestro interconnects. Both purchased 2nd hand from great people on this site. My first pair is a .5 meter with no directional arrows on them, I believe these are a newer version based on serial numbers on each cable being higher. I also have an older (based on serial numbers) pair that are 1 meter in length and have directional arrows on them. I would like to know if there is a way to determine which direction the signal flows for the .5 meter pair with no markings. Both pairs are terminated with the Straight wire's large locking RCAs. I would greatly appreciate any advice that could be offered. Thank you
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glenn_garza
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No guarantee, but if they were factory terminated the end with the serial number tags/band goes to the source or the "from" side. I do not know that it actually matters sonically, but the Straightwire ICs I have had with directional markings were all this way. I currently use Maestro's this way and they work fine.
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peterwayne OP
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Thank you for your response. I contacted Steve from Straightwire (found him here under similar post) and was informed that the cables should be marked. I looked with a high powered surefire flashlight and found the markings as described by Steve. Maestro's and the Maestro II are great cables to me. I would love to hear what higher end models sound like. Thank you again
mjmch2003
236 posts
 
I had a pair of Virtuoso R and I really didn't know how good I had it. I'd upgraded from some Cardas Twinlink, went on to kick those out and get some Nordost Heimdall. Obviously, I was all over the place in terms of the tonal and budget spectrum, but for the price I paid (something like $400 bucks), they were excellent.
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