"Wire directionality, how bad is it?
People wonder all the time, is wire really directional and does it really affect the sound? Skeptics say no, wire is not directional, citing alternating current as the "proof" that wire can’t be directional since the current alternates 60 times per second back and forth along the cable so that the net loss of gain is zero. Unfortunately if wire directionality is REAL then audiophiles are in a lot bigger trouble than they probably realized. The reason they’re in deep kim chi is because if wire is directional that means that all internal wiring in components is directional, all speaker internal wiring, all crossover networks are directional, capacitors, inductors and resistors are all directional, not to mention all cabling, including stranded conductors, all speaker cables and digital cables. Oh, and fuses, of course, as well as transformers. Possibly power cords, too, and house wiring. Even stranded wire is directional since each strand is drawn through a die prior to being spooled up. It is that final die that determines the wire’s directionality. The crystal structure is deformed so that the surface and even below the surface the crystal structure favors one direction over the other. Like stroking a porcupines back it’s easier to do in the direction the quills are pointing than against that direction. Now hard would it be to keep track of all the wires as they come through the final die? Would it kill the manufacturers to ensure that all capacitors, wiring, inductors, transformers are installed in the proper direction?!
Geoff Kait
Machina Dynamica"
I agree, that’s a lot of trouble, IF you choose to believe it.
Elliott