Simply_q, could you clarify what you mean when you say that electrons drift under ac conditions?
Are you saying that they drift back and forth over a very short distance within the cable, as I indicated in my post yesterday? Meaning that a specific electron near the source end of the cable will never emerge from the other end of the cable (assuming there is no dc offset present)?
Or are you saying that they drift, to cite an example, all the way from the "hot" connection of the source component's output jack, through the cable and the input circuit of the destination component, then through the other leg of the cable to the ground connection of the source component's output jack, and then all the way back over that same route, but in the other direction, to the "hot" connection of the source component's output jack?
Or something else?
I think that clarification may help to break the impasse that this thread seems to have reached.
Best regards,
-- Al
Are you saying that they drift back and forth over a very short distance within the cable, as I indicated in my post yesterday? Meaning that a specific electron near the source end of the cable will never emerge from the other end of the cable (assuming there is no dc offset present)?
Or are you saying that they drift, to cite an example, all the way from the "hot" connection of the source component's output jack, through the cable and the input circuit of the destination component, then through the other leg of the cable to the ground connection of the source component's output jack, and then all the way back over that same route, but in the other direction, to the "hot" connection of the source component's output jack?
Or something else?
I think that clarification may help to break the impasse that this thread seems to have reached.
Best regards,
-- Al