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
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It always amazes that people are so arrogant that they don’t even accept that they have biases, and that their sited observations are totally prone to bias and that this arrogance goes so far to extend to insulting others knowledge, even though their experience and knowledge comes down to guesses and reading a few internet forums

This from mr "if I don’t understand something it means it isn’t real." Hilarious.

I have no biases.  In this particular case I stated that I couldn’t observe a difference when the direction of the cables were changed. (Doh) I simply communicate that which I have observed. When I cannot explain something, I say so. Not being able to explain my observation does not make my observation invalid. 

You seem to be under the impression that unless you understand something, it isn’t true. How arrogant. Well, sorry to break it to you, you’re no einstein. You’re not an engineer and you most certainly do not have any experience with electronics. You don’t know how things work not because they’re not real, you don’t know how things work because you’re ignorant. Most of all, your ignorance doesn’t negate a single thing any one observes.

Get over yourself. The OP asked a legitimate question. If you cannot engage in a constructive manner, and clearly you cant, please do us all a favor and piss off.






You seem to be under the impression that unless you understand something, it isn’t true. How arrogant.
You are about right with this claim....


BUT not with this one...

You’re not an engineer and you most certainly do not have any experience with electronics.
If you read his posts you will discover and i know it because i have discussed with him harshly some time but with excitation also, that he is one of the most competent in electronic audio here...


Then insulting is not the right way....

For sure he is arrogant but incompetent he is not, sorry...

Truth matter......

The OP asked a legitimate question.
Yes and more than legitimate because his site demonstrated a dedication and seriousness very rare...

This thread is one of the most interesting one because of the questions asked by the OP....

alas! even if our friend is more than competent he is like all of us mortals very susceptible to his own blindness spot....And more susceptible than most because precisely of his higher competences....

Things are not simple .....People are  most of the times not totally  bad or good,  not even always totally right or totally wrong ....Someone could be right on some aspect of the same question and wrong on some other aspects...

We must think......
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Actually dletch2, if you can be bothered to read what you just wrote it clearly says you cannot hear. Others can, but you cannot. So you rely on your "knowledge and experience". Whereas if you could hear you would rely on that. Therefore you cannot hear. Nor reason, apparently.