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Interconnect Directionality

Have I lost my mind? I swear that I am hearing differences in the direction I hook up my interconnect cables between my preamp and power amp. These are custom built solid core silver cables with Eichmann bullet plugs. There is no shield so this is not a case where one end of the cable’s shield is grounded and the other isn’t. 

There are four ways ways to hook them up:
Right: Forward. Left: Forward. 
Right: Backward. Left: Backward
Right: Forward. Left: Backward
Right: Backward. Left: Forward. 

There is no difference in construction between forward and backward, but here are my observations:

When they are hooked up forward/backward there appears to be more airy-ness and what appears to be a slight phase difference. When hooked up forward/forward or backward/backward, the image seems more precise like they are more in phase. The difference between forward/forward and backward/backward is that one seems to push the soundstage back a little bit while the other brings it towards you more. 

What could possibly cause this? Does it have something to do with the way the wire is constructed and how the grains are made while drawn through a die? Am I imagining this? Have I completely lost my mind?
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geoffkait
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https://www.audiosciencereview.com/forum/index.php?threads/technical-article-does-audio-cable-skin-e...
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thecarpathian
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That's what I said. I'll take ten of your resonators please....
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geoffkait
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Dream on, cowboy. 🤠
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thecarpathian
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Prize pooper...
skipskip
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So the simple issue is that current flowing in one direction on a simple pure conductor meets a different resistance if that same amount of current flows in the opposite direction (over the same conductor).  And the hypothesis continues that it is imparted by process of the conductor being drawn from its molten slog and formed into a solid.

While we await the link to a peer reviewed article or even a thesis from an accredited institution, the poster who stated that electrons flow very slowly is 100% correct.  However, the external links to the kook who tries to unexplain everything are not helpful.  And here there are also some sideways discussions that delve into polarized vs. non-polarized circuits, or where on a conductor electrons carry the most charge, which is not the issue at hand.  The other external links to authorities are usually someone in the audio industry hawking some wares (or someone hawking their own) or the recycling of the Pink Floyd anecdote.  While they are probably #15 on my all time, I'd be more interested in what Tom Scholz has said.  In the studio, there's too much goofballery and zero "science" to consider what they "discovered" as proof of any concept.

While this sonic "phenomenon" somehow cannot be measured using instruments, it yet exists.  One post stated specifically to measure the resistance of a wire in one direction and then measure it in another.  While that is very much of an April Fool's joke, the serious consideration is that A/C would not exist if the amplitude of the voltage along a wire was not symmetric.  A/C works as an energy source because of this symmetry.  Discussions that cover outputs of a pre-amp into an amp or amp into speakers as being "scientific" mechanisms to measure this phenomena are speculative and further support of bias confirmation more than anything else.  If it sounds "good", does not make it science.


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