There is always the question of: "do audio cables sound different?"
Rather than say "yes or no" (..which is pointless, as you've either think you've heard a difference or not), I'm starting off this thread with this video:
The Big Misconception About Electricity - YouTube
(..and though much of video discusses AC as opposed to DC (relative to speaker connection), the most salient point of the video should give some idea that things aren't quite so simple as most would believe.)
It also makes me think a bit more about my proximity to high-power AC distribution lines near my home. 😱 😱
Rather than say "yes or no" (..which is pointless, as you've either think you've heard a difference or not), I'm starting off this thread with this video:
The Big Misconception About Electricity - YouTube
(..and though much of video discusses AC as opposed to DC (relative to speaker connection), the most salient point of the video should give some idea that things aren't quite so simple as most would believe.)
It also makes me think a bit more about my proximity to high-power AC distribution lines near my home. 😱 😱
Cause and effect…
As to the nearby power lines: they are probably as safe as we all (read: the authorities) think they have to be. Personally I would have more worries about the chance of them breaking in a gale and roasting me and my belongings.
As to the nearby power lines: they are probably as safe as we all (read: the authorities) think they have to be. Personally I would have more worries about the chance of them breaking in a gale and roasting me and my belongings.
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misconception about electricity ?
The Big Misconception About Electricity - YouTube
I think I’m astonished and wondering about the implications.
Please tell me more… I’m sure there will be some disagreement or different views.
The Big Misconception About Electricity - YouTube
I think I’m astonished and wondering about the implications.
Please tell me more… I’m sure there will be some disagreement or different views.
Just make a copper foil hat😉 Hope it's a joke from you! Brain cancer was the topic living near power lines 40 years ago. Nowadays, it's gone... Until now🙄
came here to post the very same video.
so the energy moves from the source to the load in a straight line through the field?
so the energy moves from the source to the load in a straight line through the field?
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Having enrolled in electrical engineering after school I have long understood the energy transfer is not in the movement of electrons inside conductors, but in the electromagnetic fields outside of those conductors. It is the natural consequence of fundamental physical laws understood since a long time ago before anyone reading this was born that the physical design of a cable impacts on external EM fields and hence energy transfer, hence transfer function, hence sound. It would be more extraordinary if it did not than the fact that it does! Just don't try to bring it up in a DIY Audio forum full of know-it-alls.
Yeah I watched that late last night. Certainly eye raising and sure to spark debate.its implications on audio are interesting for one im thinking of raising my speaker cables off the floor maybe its not snake oil.
Mark
Mark
maybe if you had bare metal wires and your floor would be damp?dunno if it directly translates like that.
but pretty sure the woowoo gang are revving their engines right about now.
but pretty sure the woowoo gang are revving their engines right about now.
The video is crafted to stimulate viewer engagement and to draw the audience to a follow-up explanation. This has been done before on that channel. The author was a teacher and it knows very well how to trick a distracted and mostly young audience to spend time thinking about counterintuitive scientific issues, while respecting today very short attention span. When I first learned about the Poynting vector many years ago, the experience was a lot less engaging and interesting.
The gist of the missing explanation that is puzzling you is already surfacing on the comment section of that video, or you can check out on any textbook. The main message of the video is that electromagnetic energy transfer from a source to a load can be explained by a field. If you can wrap your mind around this concept (not easy without math knowledge) this is a better and more complete explanation than mentally comparing electricity to the flow of a liquid trough a tube.
The gist of the missing explanation that is puzzling you is already surfacing on the comment section of that video, or you can check out on any textbook. The main message of the video is that electromagnetic energy transfer from a source to a load can be explained by a field. If you can wrap your mind around this concept (not easy without math knowledge) this is a better and more complete explanation than mentally comparing electricity to the flow of a liquid trough a tube.
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I think the big question is how big is that electromagnetic field? In the video it shows interaction between the source and load via the air as well as the conductor and I think that part is questionable unless very close.how big is the field around a conductor? I'm sure it depends on voltage and current.
Mark
Mark
I suspect someone will come up with electron energy potentials dropping, while those same electrons emit photons…
The moon phases do too, that's why the most competent audiophiles suggest rotating 4 pairs of cables every month, the Full Moon cables being the thickest.
Now it makes sense. I rotate the capacitors in my crossover with the moon phases. Now I need to rotate the cables too. 😛
The field is generated by the current in the conductor, so that should tell you where it is.
Jan
Jan