Differences between cd transports?

I take your point, mapman.

However, after working my way through the longgggg Stereophile exchange between Mr Kait and his critic/commentators, I am none the wiser about what his actual claim about "directionality" is. "Sounds better" is not a physical property.

What one wants from him is: 1. An actual physical description of what directionality is, and 2. Given that, an actual physical explanation of how that physical phenomenon occurs in wires and cables....

You know, physics "all the way down."

It does not seem to be forthcoming, however.

Alas.... 

And lest we forget, it's extremely likely that none of the wires inside any of your gear was assembled with any thought of wire or PC trace "directionality," and although I follow the little arrows on ICs or labelling of "speaker" or "amp" on my speaker cables (hey, it's because it's there, and I don't want whoever put the little arrows on 'em to have their feelings hurt), even the wires inside your speakers, especially board traces and any other tiny wires, are utterly random relative to alleged "directionality." Facts...nothing like facts, ya know?

I never said it wasn’t physical or electrical. But that’s not what you asked. You asked what I meant by directionality. You have to know how to ask the right question. Follow? Besides this has been covered ad nauseam on many many threads. Let your fingers do the walking. 

Wolfie complains about facts. That’s rich. He wouldn’t know a fact if it came up and bit him on the rump.

I'm going to make a video later on this week with a GOM-804 on a 250ft spool of canare l-4e6s and post it here. Why the GOM-804? So Geoff can't argue the meter wasn't accurate enough. Can't get my hands on it until Thursday morning.