Directionality of wire


I am a fan of Chris Sommovigo's Black Cat and Airwave interconnects. I hope he does not mind me quoting him or naming him on this subject, but Chris does not mark directionality of his IC's. I recently wrote him on the subject and he responded that absent shunting off to ground/dialectric designs, the idea of wire directionality is a complete myth. Same with resistors and fuses. My hunch is that 95% of IC "manufacturers", particularly the one man operations of under $500 IC's mark directionality because they think it lends the appearance of technical sophistication and legitimacy. But even among the "big boys", the myth gets thrown around like so much accepted common knowledge. Thoughts? Someone care to educate me on how a simple IC or PC or speaker cable or fuse without a special shunting scheme can possibly have directionality? It was this comment by Stephen Mejias (then of Audioquest and in the context of Herb Reichert's review of the AQ Niagra 1000) that prompts my question;

Thank you for the excellent question. AudioQuest provided an NRG-10 AC cable for the evaluation. Like all AudioQuest cables, our AC cables use solid conductors that are carefully controlled for low-noise directionality. We see this as a benefit for all applications -- one that becomes especially important when discussing our Niagara units. Because our AC cables use conductors that have been properly controlled for low-noise directionality, they complement the Niagara System’s patented Ground-Noise Dissipation Technology. Other AC cables would work, but may or may not allow the Niagara to reach its full potential. If you'd like more information on our use of directionality to minimize the harmful effects of high-frequency noise, please visit http://www.audioquest.com/directionality-its-all-about-noise/ or the Niagara 1000's owner's manual (available on our website).

Thanks again.

Stephen Mejias
AudioQuest


Read more at https://www.stereophile.com/content/gramophone-dreams-15-audioquest-niagara-1000-hifiman-he1000-v2-p...


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We can describe a thing or effect or position but we don’t really know what an electron is. Whether it is a frameworks creating a pressure point in schism that gives the impression of an electron or that an electron is a thing..... these things are totally unknown.

Framing reality is hard. The only fact we know of that actually exists .....is that this is an impossible feat.

As for photons, well, there we go. Same scenario. Even Einstein directly admitted that he could have got the sign wrong on his famous equation.

The thing that does not know what it is talks of a thing that it cannot define whilst posited in a reality/information matrix it cannot explain or define. Ultimately we (whatever that is) don’t gots a handle on jack.... just a few bits of commonality that are minimally predictable (in gross context) and applicable to the matrix and it’s so-called denizens.

Arguing about it is, well,.....

all the great minds, including Einstein spoke of these sort of things. that bible thumping your way into around or out of anything (explicit factualization) is quite the fool's game.

I'd wager many hundreds of thousands of people have directly and personally witnessed wire Directionality.

When it comes to proofing, this data is not trivial. But it will bring the Quixotally inclined -to it ---like a spinning windmill.
"Even if one wishes to refer to current as the "signal," since current is alternating we only need to worry about the current (signal) when it’s traveling toward the component or, in the case of speaker cables, when the current is traveling toward the speakers. The other half of the time, when the current is traveling in the opposite direction, we can ignore the "signal" since its effects are inaudible."

Respectfully, no. Would you argue that the speaker diaphragm moving is only audible in one direction? 
you guys have shattered my reality... I'm thinking I need to read Dianetics and see what the Church of Scientology has to say about laws of nature, physics, construct of atoms, electron clouds & movement. THEN maybe I can begin to understand wire directionality... 
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