Directionality Explained

I could understand the doubters and take them seriously- in 1980. There was no internet, Stereo Review was pretty much it, and Julian Hirsch was the Oracle of all things audio. Stereo Review and Julian Hirsch said if it measures the same it sounds the same. Wire is wire, and that was that.

Even then though J. Gordon Holt had already started the movement that was to become Stereophile. JGH took the opposing view that our listening experience is what counts. Its nice if you can measure it but if you can’t that’s your problem not ours.

Stereo Review and the measurers owned the market back then. The market gave us amplifier wars, as manufacturers competed for ever more power with ever lower distortion. Until one day "measures great sounds bad" became a thing.

Could be a few here besides me lived through and remember this. If you are reading and if you were reading JGH back then I tip my hat to you, sir! I fell prey to Hirsch and his siren song that you can have it all for cheap and don’t really have to learn to listen.

But anyway like I was saying it was easy to believe the lie back then because it was so prevalent and also because what wire there was that sounded better didn’t really sound a whole lot better.

Now though even budget wire sounds so much better than what comes off a reel you’d have to be deaf not to notice. Really good wires sound so good you’d notice even if you ARE deaf! No kidding. My aunt Bessie was deaf as a stone but she could FEEL the sound at a high enough volume and recognize it as music. So literally deaf from birth aunt Bessie can hear better than some audiophiles.

Oh and not done beating the horse quite yet, according to my calendar its 2020, a solid 40 years past 1980. Stereo Review is dead and buried. Stereophile lives on. A whole industry built on wire not being wire thrives. Maybe the measurement people can chalk up from that just how many years, billions, they are in denial.

heaudio123- Our audible ability is poor for certain types of differences. Except where large resistance, capacitance or inductance are brought into play significantly impacting frequency response, and/or volume balance, there is little (almost none), what would pass for scientific evidence,.

One more time, since logic clearly is not your strong suit-

Our audible ability is poor for certain types of differences...
there is little (almost none), what would pass for scientific evidence,

So which is it? "Our audible ability"?
Or "what would pass for scientific evidence"?

Oh and while you're at it, just who gets to decide "what would pass for" scientific evidence?

Would it by any chance be you?

Listen guys, one thing that will save us all a lot of time, we are willing for the sake of argument to concede anyone can post anything at any time, relevance not required, jokes don't even have to be funny. So you can all stop proving it. Any time. Please. Thanks.

Also reading comprehension, obviously not required. Certainly not evident.

"While wire directionality is not fully understood, it is clear that because of the wire casting process the internal grain structure of the conductor has a slight chevron shape, and this physical difference is consistent with which direction the wire sounds better."

So there.