P Floding Wrote: > > > I found this, which seems a good start: > > http://www.audioauctionhouse.co.uk/acoustic_polarity.htm
>From that article: > > There you have it, ladies and gentlemen. No one who performed these > experiments "ever seems to have evaluated the audibility of reversal of > direction of signal travel in wires... All of them made the same > mistakeassuming that polarity reversal is the cause of the change in > sound they hear." So the trick's in the metal! "This information would > seem to imply that switching polarity could very well be inaudible." > How to respond to what I would call errant nonsense? Well, for one > thing, I am conversant with wire-direction anomalies. I keep one set of > cables hanging around, not because they sound good (they don't), but to > demonstrate the aural effect of reversal, which in this case is fairly > dramaticbut nothing like polarity. Doug is correct about wire > directionality; where he errs is in attributing the whole of polarity > audibility to that phenomenon. > Sorry, but this guy is a total nutjob... -- opaqueice ------------------------------------------------------------------------ opaqueice's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=4234 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=22118 _______________________________________________ audiophiles mailing list audiophiles@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/audiophiles
