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In Reply to: I know of one Japanese wire manufacturer who claims a single draw posted by Norm on November 10, 2004 at 12:50:55:
At root all of this still begs the question of why wires, even those with no shields, sound different running in one direction rather than the other.But at this point we don't really know whether the phenomenon is physical or psychological in nature.
Until we can pin it down to being physical (i.e. an actual audible phenomenn) we'll never get to the bottom of it.
Over on diyAudio.com I tried to establish it as a phyiscal phenomenon by initiating a double blind test. This was rather unique in that it would not have required any switch boxes and the like and the listener would be able to evaluate the cables just as they would under the usual conditions that people purport to hear directionality.
Two participants enlisted for the test.
The first part of the test involved sending each participant some wires whose directions were known so that they could first assess their confidence under sighted conditions as to their ability to detect directionality of the wire.
The first person said they weren't able to hear any directionality, although the same person had previously said that in his experience the wire that was most directional was the higher quality wire and the wire used for the tests was some ultra pure OCC wire that Vampire distributes here in the US.
The second person, who was the most vocal about directionality and how easy it was to hear with any wire up and disappeared shortly after his wires were sent to him and he hasn't been heard from since. It's been nearly a year now.
I've been lately thinking about giving it another go over here.
Would you like to volunteer, Norm?
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- Re: I know of one Japanese wire manufacturer who claims a single draw - Steve Eddy 15:57:20 11/10/04 (1)
- Other than my experiment and Omega Mikro cables, I know of few actual directional efforts - Norm 19:58:46 11/10/04 (0)
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