Directionality of wire

@muzzleblast,
Without putting too fine a point on it, could you elaborate (without giving away state secrets) as to which applications do take wire directionality into consideration? (if that is what you implied, or was it I inferred?) 🤔

All the best,
Nonoise

 
muzzleblast
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LOL, yes... I've been a lurker for a while... but usually stay busy enough, I don't have much time for forums. It's like watching Trump and Kim Jong Un sparring...

I'm an engineer by profession... work in defense industry... while lots of instances where this matters, it isn't in consumer electronics between audio sources.

>>>>>Whoa, hey, small world. 

I prefer tube over ss, but some ss products sound quite good. I like glow of tubes, but also how easy tube equipment is to mod and upgrade.

>>>>>Again, small world.

 I make my own signal ic cables, and build my own speaker cables.

>>>>>Well, in that regard I might be ahead of you. I don't use IC cables, speaker cables.  Or power cords, for that matter. 

Welcome aboard, sailor! 

nonoise...

Sure, but as I alluded to, its not in the audio (more specifically analog vs digital) world. I wasn't trying to take subject matter beyond the interest in audio.  However in the RF (now we are out realm of "wired" interests) world, where one is interested in "using" low power RF signals emitted in free-space, there are numerous instances where directionality is impacted by material construction (type of insulation; Teflon being but one good example), type of conductor (Silver plated copper, and in some instances pure silver-  silver is a better conductor than copper), terminations, etc. and all are considered to reduce transmission losses (insertion losses), and maintain gain when you have exploited all that's possible from things like antenna gain, pattern coverage, etc.  However, one is dealing with signals that are much lower in emitted power than normally seen in low-power level signals from your phono player, CD, Preamp, etc. Often one is also dealing with frequencies that are in the GHz bands, not KHz as with audio.  However, none of this is fair nor applicable to the subject at hand.  Frankly the benefits of such wiring just isn't cost effective with audio signals.  However, that doesn't mean its not used to help sell lots of signal IC and speaker cables.

However, I'm sure that geoffkait can well appreciate some of this since he is totally wireless anyway.  I'm still working on my wireless approach, but alas its limited to Blue Tooth and WiFi as well as 2.4 & 5.6 GHz home networking products.  I'm still researching Nickola Tesla's work in wireless power transmission to see if I can build my own Wardenclyffe Tower, but my homeowners covenants prevent having one as tall as Tesla had.

Of course it was Marconi who had the first long distance radio transmission after much ado. In fact, it wasn’t until many years after he first embarked on his long range radio transmission mission that he realized he and just about everyone else had radio signals figured out all wrong. He was building taller and taller structures and pumping more and more power into the transmitters trying to achieve more and more distance, but misfiring and producing a few castastrophies along the way. Much to his chagrin, Marconi miscalculated that the wavelenths for long distance transmission had to be very long, whereas it turned out they had to be very short. So it wasn’t high power, long waves that was needed, but low power, short waves. Shazam!

My, a true renaissance man if there ever was one- good show!

We have much to appreciate in the modern world due to the contributions of fellows like Marconi and Tesla.  Just think what it might be like w/o them.  DC power and a power generation station at every major corner & intersection...