is there a difference?

[Curly Woods]

Hi Sy, this is good test, athough many cables have outside printings (manufacturer, cable type, etc.), which will give away the direction.

Kurt

Which makes the user aware of which end has the shield grounded and which is not.

 

[Face]

I've noticed higher floor noise when a directional cable was installed backwards, usually when one was installed correctly and the other one backwards.

 

[Wavebourn]

The problem with the test is that the original wire you cut up was not broken in and thus it has no direction, or so someone who believes in such nonsense might say. So they will believe your test is invalid and they can go on believing that what they say is objective truth, even if they lost money. You can't win, SY, it is as pointless as arguing religion.

The whole bobbin may be broken in by Bear before cutting and testing.

 

[stinius]

Man if you cannnot hear the difference between say a cable on one direction Vs the other get a new hobby. Best regards Moray James.

Get yourself a shrink, and I'm not kidding.

Best regards.

Stinius

 

[bigwill]

I'd better re-wire my tube amp I didn't pay attention to the direction of the wires the first time

 

[nigelwright7557]

I've noticed higher floor noise when a directional cable was installed backwards, usually when one was installed correctly and the other one backwards.

How can you have a directional cable when your applying AC to it ?

If it was DC then I might understand.......

 

[Key]

Haha we couldn't stop talking about cables for a week?

Really this one should be easy to test for. Why don't I just take a CD and re-record it with a loop back on a set of ordinary balanced cables. Take two colors of tape (red and black) and mark both ends. Then re-record a song 3 times (red+red, red+black, and black+black). Then we can use foobars ABX and we'll see who can really hear the difference. Obviously only one combination should be the correct one. Obviously

 

[poynton]

I've noticed higher floor noise when a directional cable was installed backwards, usually when one was installed correctly and the other one backwards.

Have you tried lifting the cables off the floor?

I believe you can buy purpose made cable stands for this.


Andy

 

[poynton]

Haha we couldn't stop talking about cables for a week?

Really this one should be easy to test for. Why don't I just take a CD and re-record it with a loop back on a set of ordinary balanced cables. Take two colors of tape (red and black) and mark both ends. Then re-record a song 3 times (red+red, red+black, and black+black). Then we can use foobars ABX and we'll see who can really hear the difference. Obviously only one combination should be the correct one. Obviously

You forgot "Black-red"

It is not the same as red-black


Andy

 

[Face]

Have you tried lifting the cables off the floor?

I believe you can buy purpose made cable stands for this.


Andy

 

[Steerpike]

I have a solution though! Double-up on cable, and connect it like two anti-parallel diodes. This way you (a) halve the cable resistance, and (b) get the best direction, no matter which way your ac chooses to travel!
You must NOT buy superconducting cable though, or your current will circle endlessly through the two conductors, in a kind of infinite Kekuléian snake thing.

 

[Cal Weldon]

Haha we couldn't stop talking about cables for a week?

Bad Moray.

 

[PeteMcK]

'I've noticed higher floor noise' ... whenever this subject arises...

 

[peace brainerd]

intolerance generator. insert topic of choice.

is there a God?

if people cannot comprehend the difference between things ie. good and evil, then why do they argue that there is no God? Man if you cannnot experience the difference between say Vishnu on one hand Vs ,,,,, well, the other, Koresh, Smith, Hubbard, damn, I don't know, get a new life.

Best regards

 

[Face]

Those who don't know, don't know.

 

[PeteMcK]

ah, but those who don't know don't know that they don't know.

 

[BHTX]

QFT.

Do you mean ...
"Quantum Field Theory"
or
"Quoted for Truth"

..I immediately somehow read it as "Quit ******* Trolling".

You can't win, SY, it is as pointless as arguing religion.

Couldn't agree more.

If someone says "this is what I hear", though, I've learned not to argue with that. All I know is what I've heard/read/believe...and I'm not going to apply that to anyone else.

This is obviously the more passive approach to such matters, which I personally think is used much too often. If everyone who held unjustifiable outrageous beliefs since the dawn of civilization simply had the **** slapped out of them by everyone else, I think a lot of unnecessary deaths would have been prevented, not to mention all the other problems "beliefs" tend to cause.

intolerance generator. insert topic of choice.

is there a God?

if people cannot comprehend the difference between things ie. good and evil, then why do they argue that there is no God? Man if you cannnot experience the difference between say Vishnu on one hand Vs ,,,,, well, the other, Koresh, Smith, Hubbard, damn, I don't know, get a new life.

Best regards

 

[Key]

You forgot "Black-red"

It is not the same as red-black


Andy

You just blew my mind

 

[Glowbug]

This is obviously the more passive approach to such matters, which I personally think is used much too often. If everyone who held unjustifiable outrageous beliefs since the dawn of civilization simply had the **** slapped out of them by everyone else, I think a lot of unnecessary deaths would have been prevented, not to mention all the other problems "beliefs" tend to cause.

 

[Wavebourn]

One more subtle difference not everyone knows: the amp must stay above speakers, the preamp have to stay above the amp, and the signal source have to stay on top, in such case it will sound easy. If signal goes up it makes the sound less relaxed.