I would agree with this. I believe my Inakustik cables are directional because the shield is terminated at one end.
I have some genesis interconnect. One end is silver and the other copper. I was told to put the copper at the source and the silver at the load. But I don't know it has anything to do with anything outside being consistent.
Something I have always pondered is this idea a wire burns in and develops a direction. Not sure this is what people mean. When I think of a piece of wire and the crystal boundaries having a grain, I can't conceive of any of that changing over time due to use. Not unless that use resulted in heat. A lot of heat.
I do agree you change the boundaries when you bend a wire. If you bend it back and forth enough times, it will snap in half. So yes you have changed the structure.
Some wire responds to being moved rather than anything to do with directionality (which seems to have more to do with the dielectrics involved than the wire itself). So when you reverse a speaker cable to see if it sounds better in one direction, you're not giving it time to settle in. About 35 years ago George Cardas made a set of microphone cables for my Neumann mics. The U67s don't use phantom power like modern mics; instead they have power supplies with multiple connections in the cable to provide for DC filament and high Voltage for the tubes in the mics. I found the Cardas mic cables were very sensitive to how they were laid out and they made a very audible sound through the speakers when you moved them. The original Neumann cables also had this problem but it was
far less obvious. The Cardas cables needed several hours to settle down, which made them impractical in the studio where the mics are moved about quite a lot. IOM you are ascribing the wrong explanation to explain what you're hearing.
Food for thought.
If interconnects have arrows I would think Asside of makers advice it’s a guess but ,
If cables are terminated differently this can be understood more
in effect it to lower or eliminate a ground loop.
think like shielded data or signal wires that are shielded
only one side gets used
not both
also this Effects the capacitor and inductance
For a total imp load
Its not to prevent a ground loop, its to prevent signal return current from passing through the shield.
IOW the shield is thus able to have far less noise in it which otherwise is in turn impinged to a small degree into the signal itself. In this way the cable is able to be a little bit more neutral. BTW if a balanced line is set up properly, this idea is used there because if the setup complies with AES48 (the balanced line standard) the shield is completely ignored by the signal; its only used for shielding unlike many RCA cables.
Okay, again, with my huge tube mono block tube amps, I could kill myself touching the wrong live component (the manufacturer said the same - high voltage). I'll just stick to my own method but thanks for the information. You are confirming that there exists a difference in sound of fuses based on direction.
I'm confirming that
transformer connections can result in more or less
leakage (which is audible, perhaps as a buzz and measurable), but that has
nothing whatsoever to do with fuse direction- its a completely different thing!!
OK, let’s look at a fuse in an audio AC circuit, for example a fuse located on one leg of the two AC wires coming into an amplifier. Visualize the signal wiggling back and forth in the fuse wire. When the signal is moving in the direction of the speakers it causes the speaker diaphragm to move out, assign the fuse is located on the + wire and cabling has consistent connectivity. But when the signal is moving in the opposite direction, I.e., away from the speakers toward the wall there is *no effect on the speakers* or the sound. We only care about the signal when it’s moving toward the speakers, you can ignore the signal moving toward the wall.
The E and B fields are produced by the electromagnetic wave in the wire. And E and B fields lie completely outside the wire or cable conductor and are what interacts with the magnet and voice coil of the speaker diaphragm, to move it in and out, + and - wires of the AC circuit.
Thus, for best results both + and - wires of power cord should be controlled for directionality, on the non-fuse leg the signal going toward the speaker also affects the sound, and the signal on the non-fuse wire can be ignored when it’s traveling toward the wall.
This purified, distilled nonsense is false; ask any speaker designer. to Debunk this bit of nonsense place a diode in series with the signal and (because a diode function is being described here) and see what happens!. If you do that you'll find enormous distortion regardless if which direction the diode is placed.
I am explaining how to listen to the grain of a wire if you don't believe you can hear it. I am not trying to tell you to use THHN/THWN as speaker wire. That is not the point.
This only works with solid wire.
I have never heard stranded. I think the capacitive coupling of all the touching strands smears the sound to much. Stranded is a bit wolly and muddy. A little bass slow and heavy. When used at 120 volt branch wire. Again, this is not speaker wire. The speaker is just a tool. Use a crappy background music system. You don't need to do this with your big rig.
Rex, you of all people should be aware that audio is an AC signal, a bit more complex than that feeding a breaker box but AC nonetheless. Imagine the idea that a fuse or strand of wire were really directional. The only way it could be directional is if it conducted better in one direction as opposed to the other (somehow the resistance of the wire is different in one direction), yet we
are talking about an AC signal current, which
must be free to conduct equally well in
both directions! If directional, a current dropped across that resistance would result in greater heat (Ohm's Law).
Since wires do heat in AC power applications, doesn't it make more sense (a lot simpler explanation) that its simply due to Voltage drop occurring in both directions?
