So you think wire conductors in cables are directional? Think again...

Andy2:

What/who are RF Folks?

I can only think of "radio frequency" off the top of my head.

DeKay

Drive your car to work, then drive back. Your mpg is not the same both way because one way will have more uphill or downhill vs. the other way.

Same for electrons. They will expend different amount of energy differently directionally because the metal structure is not uniform.

At least that is the theory, but as far as if you could hear a difference, I don't know.  My old age hearing probably not good enough.

😀😂😂. Let’s just say this is a failed attempt to analogy 

djones513,973 posts05-13-2021 3:30pmWhy is it the direction an AC wire is installed only seems to affect audio systems? You never see people complaining about their refrigerator boiling eggs or stove freezing pizza with backwards wires.

Here is a riddle for you guys.

Let's say you have a track from point A - to - B.  This track is not symmetric but have obstacles, uphill, down hill but everything is non-uniform.  May have more uphill or downhill depends on direction.

Case 1: You run from A to B then back to A.
Case 2: You run from B to A then back to B.

Will you expend the same amount of energy in both cases?

Ah, with a little bit of sleuthing, I found the article from the failed link where one of the engineers for Pink Floyd talks of how they built the recording studio on the Astoria. About 2/3 of the way down he goes into detail on how cables sound different one way over the other and that one is a better sounding way:
https://www.davidgilmour.com/press/2005/march/TapeOp_March05.pdf

But hey, he's only a recording engineer working with Pink Floyd so what do they know?

All the best,
Nonoise