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Re: "IF there is an effect that is large enough to be heard (as in altering the acoustic signal entering your ears..."

Hi

I see your point, I was assuming the need to prove, or not, “if” cables have a direction by comparison of each end. What goes on in ones personal head is an individual thing.

The PEAR work, not the “prospectus sounding” reports showed that some minority percentage of the population, was able to “influence” the results of otherwise random events, at a magnitude that exceeded statistical probability.
Yet, when the identical studies were undertaken the correlation which had been found was now nearly gone. There may be other cases like cold fusion where the presence of skeptics seems to spoil the party like a brown floater in the punchbowl.

If one were designing equipment to be optimal and had the bux to do it like they do in larger market areas, one would have a large number of skilled listeners to audition an A vs B comparisons in its development.
“Enough” people would average out the small percentage that “PEAR” effects the actual operation of the gear (which produces the pressure going into ones ear).
Limiting the test to one where there is no knowledge and no expectation of which is which (what a or b is), the result is only based on what one hears as in discerning only from the pressure in ones ears.
In these kinds of tests, with ones eyes closed too, one doesn’t detect the presence or absence of colored paper under a lamp or aligned screw heads on the equipment, magic marbles, magic knobs and such because they are not related to the pressure in your ears.

If speaker wire is “directional” or has an impact on what comes out, it has to alter the signal “somehow”. That makes before and after different enough to hear and then, also large enough to be heard as a signal produced across the conductor, which drives a second speaker.
Best,

Tom


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