Correlating the shill posts on this thread, it's clear that there are many sellers of boutique audio electronics accessories who registered on this forum.
Some do, some don't. They use what works best for their voice.
Absolutes like you stated are practically always wrong. For example Bono uses a cheap Shure SM58 for recording.
Not sure if we are on the same page here. As I already said, for example a polar and non homogeneous dielectric, having therefore any or both of e m represented as non Hermitian tensors (that is, a complex, non symmetrical matrix) will still lead to a non directional cable. But e m depending on E, H or time would break the Lorentz theorem.
Correlating the shill posts on this thread, it's clear that there are many sellers of boutique audio electronics accessories who registered on this forum.
Really? Can you cite some names? Perhaps they are too subtle in their snake oil sales pitch because try as I might, I cannot figure out who here is trying to sell me something.
shills...many sellers of boutique audio accessories. Hmmm... I've never actually been in an audio store. DIYer ya know. Maybe that's why I can't spot em doing their witchraft.
You might say that but that statement is just as wrong as your other one regarding tube gear.
It's a skill that you have to polish up on your own. If not, it's your loss.Really? Can you cite some names? Perhaps they are too subtle in their snake oil sales pitch because try as I might, I cannot figure out who here is trying to sell me something.
shills...many sellers of boutique audio accessories. Hmmm... I've never actually been in an audio store. DIYer ya know. Maybe that's why I can't spot em doing their witchraft.
I'm always right.
But I use valve op-amp hybrids anyway.
Best of both, all diy.
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There is nothing there supporting any of the claims here, certainly no superconductor even remotely near room temperature. The ironic thing is that confronted with the claim of simple hookup wire directionality the author would probably laugh. Unfortunately just as with Hawksford there is professional courtesy which prevents one Dr. from calling out another in public.
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Really? Can you cite some names? Perhaps they are too subtle in their snake oil sales pitch because try as I might, I cannot figure out who here is trying to sell me something.
shills...many sellers of boutique audio accessories. Hmmm... I've never actually been in an audio store. DIYer ya know. Maybe that's why I can't spot em doing their witchraft.
Far more people are selling their ideology (ahem), and some also happen to have financial motivations. Food for thought.
And silent readers, an even larger advertisement base. My estimate is an at least 10:1 ratio. Probably much more than Stereophile, and it's free!
Because it's free, they can easily shill around many other forums. Once they have their shill tactics written down, they can just copy & paste on each forum they visit. The recognizable patterns seen elsewhere are "false positive" when trying to discredit double blind test, "you can't measure everything you hear", "how do you quantify sound stage?"...etc.
The replication crisis in science (which is all about false positives) is surely just fabricated to "discredit double blind test" .......
Further, i guess you wanted to blame the "false negatives" narrative, but good ol´ Ioannidis had also a lot to say about underpowered experiments. Unfortunately, if the fundamentalism is just based on a collection of ancedotes from Peter Aczel, you most probably will never know such informations....
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My starting point is that to make a directional structure you have to do something special; something which ordinary audio cables do not (and probably cannot) do.Waly said:
In RF you can make directional couplers by having structures similar in size to a wavelength (or at least a quarter wave) - not relevant to audio.
You can sample voltage and current and combine them - such as various types of inductor/transformer based directional couplers/combiners etc. - not relevant to audio cables.
You can use magnetically biased ferrites, although only practical at microwave frequencies?
Finally there are some substances whose electrical/magnetic properties depend on the magnetic/electric field they see, such as multiferroics. Typically somewhat exotic ceramics, still mainly research topics. Not sure if they are now in use commercially.
Genuinely directional analogue audio cables are bunkum, but it might be interesting to explore why belief in this is so persistent. In some cases it could be that something real is happening, but the cable is getting the blame for something actually done by something else such as a faulty connector.
Interestingly if you look in the audioquest mire you will see they actually define directionality as being related to the end that the shield is connected. Yup they shield at one end only.
Now Whitlock does discuss this and there are advantages in some cases for balanced interconnects, but with capacitive coupling of shield at one end. JN may disagree of course. But the maffs works. No flooby required.
Now Whitlock does discuss this and there are advantages in some cases for balanced interconnects, but with capacitive coupling of shield at one end. JN may disagree of course. But the maffs works. No flooby required.
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