Directionality Explained

Jeff playing shy? hard to get?

So what differences do people hear when cables are in the preferred direction versus the opposite? For an audible difference the cable must be imparting some specific signature, be it distortion, attenuation or or some other characteristic. Whether it is measurable or otherwise quantifiable is arbitrary. I’m willing to accept that there is a qualitative difference that some people are capable of detecting.

Since the charge moving through the cable is variable with the audio signal, only one side of that signal is moving charge in the preferred direction. Therefore, whatever sonic signature is imparted to the signal, it is acting differently on the positive part of the waveform than the negative part. If the cable is reversed then the characteristic signature is inverted and the opposite polarity of the waveform is moving charge in the preferred direction.

So if the cable is directional then in order to hear it, one would need to be able to differentiate between the cable’s effect on the positive part of the signal versus the negative part.

Has anyone done the experiment of listening to a system in all 4 configurations?

Cable direction A - non-inverted
Cable direction A - inverted
Cable direction B - non-inverted
Cable direction B - inverted

Somebody must have tried this, right?

Ah, - and then what about 'reverse-burnin' !?! 
And then revers burn-in yet AGAIN?!?... 🤔 

Them charges might get so highly confused, an' make that cable sound no good then either way, eh? 😢 What say y'all? 

Will this EVER come to any conclusion, (with or without a' Sachertort'n, ge hörst, jetz' sag a mal ?) 🤔 

🎂 now please...! 😉 
M. 🇿🇦 

“If I could explain it to the average dude or dudette they wouldn’t have given me the Nobel prize.”

“People would be generally better off if they believed in too much instead of too little.”

When I come here I keep a journal mostly of all the good jokes so I can show them to people in the future where I come from. They say they like them a lot since there are no audio forums in the future and certainly not jokes of this caliber. I had to get back on a few of my medications I had forgotten about.

Yes Sir!
Is why I kept saying follow them arrow(s), right?
An' if yer h'aint got those, follow the writing. Sharp! 
No Nobel Price needed, just follow simple instruction! Right there on that cable, I do... and what will follow?

Peace 🕊 of mind! OMMMM... OMMMM 🙏

T' works for me, yes, does.
Wanna come check it out? 🤔
💐 Welcome! 👍 
M. 🇿🇦