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
The very first post on this thread was by me. In the OP it was claimed there is only one conclusion.
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.
I said there was another conclusion, bias. Now tell us what would be the "scientific" thing to do? Conduct a test to eliminate bias since it is another legitimate conclusion to his premise or continue on as if it's irrelevant? 
I am not interested at all by cables market...

Nor by cables promoters....

Nor by cables debunkers...

I am not interested by debates between these 2 categories of people...


I am interested by dedicated researchers, nevermind if they are wrong or right....I like good faith and truth....

Then those who reduce any debate to their own pettyness are not welcome under my gaze....



I am interested by understanding, sound, hearing, audio and others scientific and philosophical matters exceeding my own competence and anyway the competence of most of us  but very interesting for me anyway...






Mahgister, you are just making excuses. Either you do a blind listening test as djones51 said right away, or you just write this one off as bias.  This is pointless. Throw this in the bin with all the other impossible claims that come up over the years.
So we accept any notion without testing or question. Doesn't sound very scientific or philosophical.

1. There's only 1 conclusion to explain this phenomenon 
2. Here's an alternate conclusion
3. We're not interested in debunkers.

Anton made his own test....

He does not sell cable...

He come here to discuss his ideas...

You reject him like a peddler of cable...

You speak like a " sckeptic of the sunday club" ...

A scientist is interested to understand idea BEFORE dismissing them...

I already say that HIS SITE does not promote cable purchase...

Are you able to read?

 He propose experiment any electrician with 2 ears coud do...

 Do you think he will send you a pair of cable to blindtest? He is not a seller of cable...You confuse him with a company of cable?

 It is very disturbing for me because you are intelligent....

Do you fake misunderstanding?