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What do we hear when we change the direction of a wire?

Douglas Self wrote a devastating article about audio anomalies back in 1988. With all the necessary knowledge and measuring tools, he did not detect any supposedly audible changes in the electrical signal. Self and his colleagues were sure that they had proved the absence of anomalies in audio, but over the past 30 years, audio anomalies have not disappeared anywhere, at the same time the authority of science in the field of audio has increasingly become questioned. It's hard to believe, but science still cannot clearly answer the question of what electricity is and what sound is! (see article by A.J.Essien).

For your information: to make sure that no potentially audible changes in the electrical signal occur when we apply any "audio magic" to our gear, no super equipment is needed. The smallest step-change in amplitude that can be detected by ear is about 0.3dB for a pure tone. In more realistic situations it is 0.5 to 1.0dB'". This is about a 10% change. (Harris J.D.). At medium volume, the voltage amplitude at the output of the amplifier is approximately 10 volts, which means that the smallest audible difference in sound will be noticeable when the output voltage changes to 1 volt. Such an error is impossible not to notice even using a conventional voltmeter, but Self and his colleagues performed much more accurate measurements, including ones made directly on the music signal using Baxandall subtraction technique - they found no error even at this highest level.

As a result, we are faced with an apparently unsolvable problem: those of us who do not hear the sound of wires, relying on the authority of scientists, claim that audio anomalies are BS. However, people who confidently perceive this component of sound are forced to make another, the only possible conclusion in this situation: the electrical and acoustic signals contain some additional signal(s) that are still unknown to science, and which we perceive with a certain sixth sense.

If there are no electrical changes in the signal, then there are no acoustic changes, respectively, hearing does not participate in the perception of anomalies. What other options can there be?

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anton_stepichev
anton_stepichev OP
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@calvinandhobbes
One possible physical reason for directionality of cables is due to the direction in which the wire is drawn and voids and irregularities that result from the drawing process.

The drawing of the wire affects its sound, I checked it myself, I used jewelry dies. However, from the point of view of the electricity, no changes in the conductivity of the wire occur during drawing:
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"Concern over cables is widespread, but it can be said with confidence that there is as yet not a shred of evidence to support it. Any piece of wire passes a sinewave with unmeasurable distortion, and so simple notions of inter-crystal rectification or “micro-diodes” can be discounted, quite apart from the fact that such behaviour is absolutely ruled out by established materials science. No plausible means of detecting, let alone measuring, cable degradation has ever been proposed."

"The most positive proof that Subjectivism is fallacious is given by subtraction testing. This is the devastatingly simple technique of subtracting before-and-after amplifier signals and demonstrating that nothing audibly detectable remains."

Douglas Self, Science and Subjectivism in Audio
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dletch2
455 posts
 
I've got 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, special pleadings working over time. 


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I think you mean infamous.
dletch2
455 posts
 
96% of the Universe is MISSING! It is dark matter & Dark energy of which we literally know nothing. Higgs Boson seems to hold everything together, yet is totally elusive. It is the "God Particle" yet some scientists call it the Godda** Particle instead because they cannot get a grip on it.


And yet we can still land a vehicle on Mars, even fly something while there. More special pleading.
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artemus_5
1,911 posts
 

And yet we can still land a vehicle on Mars, even fly something while there. More special pleading.

So.....?
What was the 1st thought that went through the mind of the Commander when that happened?

You can lead a horse to water, But he may piss in it. Apparently, Its what proponents of Scientism do also
anton_stepichev OP
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@millercarbon
I know from experience there are huge gains to be made from using higher quality caps, inductors, and resistors.

Without doubt, every detail of the audio system is involved in the formation of its individual differences. I do not mention radio components because the study of its sound is unsuitable for generalizations since the properties of individual parts of each radio component are unknown, and the parts are randomly directed relative to each other.

I think the only possible way to understand the nature of sound perception is to focus on studying a short piece of single-core wire.

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