What do we hear when we change the direction of a wire?


Douglas Self wrote a devastating article about audio anomalies back in 1988. With all the necessary knowledge and measuring tools, he did not detect any supposedly audible changes in the electrical signal. Self and his colleagues were sure that they had proved the absence of anomalies in audio, but over the past 30 years, audio anomalies have not disappeared anywhere, at the same time the authority of science in the field of audio has increasingly become questioned. It's hard to believe, but science still cannot clearly answer the question of what electricity is and what sound is! (see article by A.J.Essien).

For your information: to make sure that no potentially audible changes in the electrical signal occur when we apply any "audio magic" to our gear, no super equipment is needed. The smallest step-change in amplitude that can be detected by ear is about 0.3dB for a pure tone. In more realistic situations it is 0.5 to 1.0dB'". This is about a 10% change. (Harris J.D.). At medium volume, the voltage amplitude at the output of the amplifier is approximately 10 volts, which means that the smallest audible difference in sound will be noticeable when the output voltage changes to 1 volt. Such an error is impossible not to notice even using a conventional voltmeter, but Self and his colleagues performed much more accurate measurements, including ones made directly on the music signal using Baxandall subtraction technique - they found no error even at this highest level.

As a result, we are faced with an apparently unsolvable problem: those of us who do not hear the sound of wires, relying on the authority of scientists, claim that audio anomalies are BS. However, people who confidently perceive this component of sound are forced to make another, the only possible conclusion in this situation: the electrical and acoustic signals contain some additional signal(s) that are still unknown to science, and which we perceive with a certain sixth sense.

If there are no electrical changes in the signal, then there are no acoustic changes, respectively, hearing does not participate in the perception of anomalies. What other options can there be?

Regards.
anton_stepichev
As to science: before Galilei the world was deemed flat because scientists didn‘t know what to measure: geddit?
If we revert back to the knowledge level of the time of Galileo I will be sure to let you know. However, we knew the earth was not flat since about 2,000 BC.  The Greeks had discovered it back then.  However a bunch of anti-science people fought tooth and nail to prevent the acceptance of reality.  geddit?
I remember reading in 1976 in French ,the first edition, the" fractal objects" of Mandelbrot and all the book was about  measuring in a way...

The first chapter was:  How to measure brittany coast...

 One of the most beautiful book i read...

The book became legendary after that, a milestone in science....


However a bunch of anti-science people fought tooth and nail to prevent the acceptance of reality. geddit?
His point was not about "subjectivist/objectivist" stupid audio thread wars, it was about the necessity to know what parameters to measure and how they correlate to phenomena before and after the measuring process; Eratosthene was in ptolemaic dynastical Egypt Alexandria library one of the rare people able to understand Archimedes.... Till the times of Galileo almost all people think flat earth... Geddit!