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 wasn’t referring to mysticism or biases but how our vision works. It’s like the blind spot everyone has in their eyes, the brain fills in the information, you don’t really "see" what’s in that blind spot but the illusion the brain created from the surrounding information. The eye sees a table the optic nerve passes information it receives to the brain, the brain recreates the table from the information. Evolution created an amazing Rube Goldberg contraption for our sight.
What i just say is not mysticism...

The book i just mention adress this problem of hearing and deception and is easy to read....

For the question of meaning, illusion or reality are inseparable....

But one thing must also be keep in mind.... The mind/brain does not work at all like a computer...

The reason is simple, there is no possibility at all to reduce consciousness to an algorithm...

Save negating consciousness and treating it like an illusion or an epiphenomenon in the absolute sense...

But negating the value of consciousness is an autodestruction of the meaning of life .....nihilism in the absolute sense, idolatry of technology.... This is transhumanism cultism....
All religions are cults. We're born, live, die. That's it. Consciousness is a byproduct of our large brains. Pretty simple.
All religions are cults. We’re born, live, die. That’s it. Consciousness is a byproduct of our large brains. Pretty simple.
I am sorry but no newspaper never help me to understand reality...cult are not only official or unofficial religions...Some scientist belief are also cultism.... Look at transhumanism.... The most powerful and growing cult ....It is not scientology but transhumanism...

Only hard deep books and mostly intuition and experience help me....No sheep walking behind cult leader...

And in this deep books no one confuse brain matter with consciousness...In my experience my brain is not me at all....Call that an illusion if this help you sleep better...Meaning is not a flow of proteins...The distribution of prime numbers is not a perceptive illusion or a fact coming from random atoms hitting each other.... It is the opposite physicist has discovered some links between energy distribution and the unknown dynamics of primes numbers... Meaning is not born from random atoms or toughts to die a meaningless death...Use your imagination more and less your logic.....

And nowadays it is easy to look for information that go beyond, this mantra: " were born,live and die"...

Love and thinking are not compatible with materialism....

And like i said pure materialism is a dead idea in science...Read Bernado Kastrup articles it is easy to read....

The best way to take a look at the universe was formulated by Blaise Pascal: bet on the more fecund idea... You lost nothing at worst and gain everything at best....

If you read his life you will see that he was not stupid at all....
LOL, Pascal’s Wager. Simplistic .
You think that you understand what this genius speak about?

You think a skeptic of the skeptic club exceed Pascal in intelligence?

Think again i read it....I can understand the difference....

But you dont listen to anything your mind is set like an alarm clock...

Imagination dont work this way, and if you think imagination is deception you dont understand what it is...

Creativity does not exist in conditioned mind....