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?

Regards.
anton_stepichev
What are you talking about?   I said its my OPINION.   IS your's opinion or fact?
An idea is not an amplifier...

You can state your opinion about an amplifier without any need to justify...

But an idea is not an object and you said without any REASON that this thread is bulshit.... You are not ALONE in this thread with someone, we are many and we wait for the reason why it is bulshit...

The OP is sincere in his quest and dont merit insults...

This is my point.....

And try to study what is recommended before spitting something...

Essien book is a doctorate  about a fundamental fact.... Even if he is wrong the book is interesting...




Then in my list of thread useful counts , save my discussion with audio2design, which give me  great idea, this OP give the other important one...

 Then in the many years here these are the only 2 important posters i discuss with...


 This is my MOTIVATED  opinion....



I said it was useless or worse which is my opinion. Sorry if it bothers you. Never mentioned bull-sh-t but hey if the shoe fits. 90% of it anyway.
And try to study what is recommended before spitting something...


Not that this justified an answer but I’ve been studying these things for years. So I suspect my opinion is at least as educated as yours.
Have we figured out what we hear when we change the direction of a wire yet?