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 have pointed out the error that led to the conclusion. 

However, people who confidently perceive this component of sound are forced to make another, the only possible conclusion
The error is your refusal to accept there could be another conclusion. Your error is accepting the belief of those who claim to "confidently perceive " there is a difference in the sound. In science you don't accept beliefs you test for proof. Until you acknowledge the fact that humans are easily fooled and have biases you'll never convince anyone outside those who already agree with your flawed methodology. 
Your error is accepting the belief of those who claim to "confidently perceive " there is a difference in the sound. In science you don’t accept beliefs you test for proof.
Are you serious?

He himself listened to a difference with his directed wiring amplifier...

You are THE ONE with a belief...you believe it is IMPOSSIBLE....

Are you insane and unable to think by YOURSELF and only able to repeat the technological credo of some other here because he said so?

I myself have NO OPINION in this matter.... But i want to listen and discuss with someone who had an experience...Without putting him on a tribunal writing his own rule for the judgement...

Blindtest is a tool at most, not a PROOF of reality for complex phenomena....His experiment must be take at heart by someone else...And repeated....

Anyway a blindtest in this case is IMPOSSIBLE... It is not a cable sellers here...He will not give you a cable to verify.... ask Ted Denney for one...

Think without repeating scientist mantra....

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I’m so glad you have no opinion. It makes my day.
Sarcasm is not a replacement for intelligence...

I CANNOT have and HAD no opinion about wiring direction from a tube amplifier...I say it from the beginning but i am interested by the person who created the contour site yes...

YOU HAVE ONE OPINION, YOU ARE THE ONE WITH A BELIEF and no experience and no experiment ...

I have myself an opinion about the WAY to treat people tough ...Especially people who propose something related to decades of work, EVEN IF they are wrong.....It is called respect and fair listening...We are supposed to be equals human beings here speaking between themselves ...


A bias coming from a belief or an arrogant " knowledge" is not on the same footing than a bias coming from experiments...

These biases cannot be put on trial BEFORE experiments....

And in this case a blindtest CANNOT replace the experiment save for idiots or conditioned mind...

Are you able to think or you repeat dletch2 arrogance?

dletch2 I just read another thread where you reject with the back of your hand another person which was talking about his own design experiment with cables by the way... You have not improved in the last month contrary to my belief ....

Arrogance does not reflect intelligence only conditining of the working mind....Then your competence so great they are, and i dont doubt they are great, are also blinders ....

Must i repeat that this guy here did not sell cables.....