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In Reply to: RE: Education and growth posted by Joe Roberts on September 22, 2015 at 14:40:37
"For physics insights, I say find electronics materials experts. There are many super high powered people in this field and we never get to hear about 99% of the research...most of which I couldn't care less about, to be sure!"If there is any substance to wire directionality and only these top research guys are involved, still where is the commercial application?
Surely if there is something there we would know by now. Even if it has no commercial value, such a discovery would still be featured in most science and engineering journals. Just look st the controversy it stirs up here. This would be ground breaking news to the electrical industry as a whole.
That leaves two possibilities I can think of.
1) It has been formally investigated on the level you suggest and nothing of any relevance has been found.
2) Such a discovery would serve no commercial purpose so nobody will fund the research.
In either case it remains and audiophile legend. As for my interest, that's not my job. I deal in applications, not materials physics. If this becomes a new recommended practice to worry about wire direction based on solid accredited reviewed research, then most of the engineering community will comply.
But I don't see that happening.
"Pierre and Ron are actual trained engineering scientists"
I'm not so sure of that. Can you provide background?
P.S. The kind of background an employer or venture capital firm would require. Not some audiophile magazine bio!
Edits: 09/22/15 09/22/15Follow Ups:
I took the decision of adding a new thread about the finding of a wire's direction in the Cables forum. Judging from the debate here, I expect an angry crowd with flying eggs in the other thread, but I don't mind. I hope the debate here lowers a bit and transfers to the Cables forum.
As cpotl said, that the perfect place for that discussion. I'm sure you will be pleasantly surprised by the response.
A little update on the wire direction thing.
I am kinda at an impasse, playing around I can only make a guess as to which direction sounds better, I can't tell a difference.
That is a problem, if I can't choose a "better" direction, then I have no hope in collecting any meaningful data.
The only reason why I pursued the test was that my comment about alternating current wasn't entirely accurate.
I stated that the wires were passing AC, when in reality some parts of the amp are not reversing direction of the current so much as they are modulating it.
I realize that sometimes this is a matter of semantics, nonetheless, the current on the primary side of an output transformer varies in current, rather then alternate, which implies that the current switches direction.
My system must not be resolving enough. ;)
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Garg0yle,
Thank you for sharing.
If you wish to make another test, an unshielded RCA cable is a good candidate.
"I took the decision of adding a new thread about the finding of a wire's direction in the Cables forum. Judging from the debate here, I expect an angry crowd with flying eggs in the other thread, but I don't mind. I hope the debate here lowers a bit and transfers to the Cables forum."Since they apparently explicitly forbid scientific discussion of testing claims about cable differences on the Cables forum, and they forbid anyone who suggests that cable differences might not be audible, it seems likely that over there you will just encounter evangelicals and fellow travellers who will happily reaffirm each other's collective beliefs.
Chris
Edits: 09/23/15
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