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
I would not waste your time on Essien.
I appreciate your input...

But we are too different animals to understand ourselves intellectually... This is the bad news...

The good news is i like discussing with friends which are in a complete opposite direction... It is with them  that l learn the most...Then i appreciate greatly your patience with me....You contributed greatly to my pleasure being here....

I apologize for being hard head and from your perspective "ignorant"...
I am ignorant but perhaps a little bit less than what you will be inclined to think...

Anyway my best to you....


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dletch2"I would not waste your time on Essien. He comes across a bit of a fraud."

You are certainly trying to "carve out" a space for yourself as the group's leading evangelist and decider of truths you should check out the work of  Erich Fetzenwhaller, a brilliant physicist who also understood the inner workings, failings, and weaknesses of the human mind.
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Erich Fetzenwhaller
There is no mention of his name on the internet...

 then?
Erich Fetzenwhaller, a brilliant --- physicist ---   who also understood the inner workings, failings, and weaknesses of the --- human mind ---.



My mechanic thinks he is a pretty good psychologist too, and epidemiologist too. It is a good thing he is a mechanic.