What’s your vote for the most ridiculous, overpriced, and useless tweak?

Directional wire, wire break-in devices and overpriced aftermarket power cords.  

Geoffkait, prove it to us that wire is directional!  Just cause you say its so does NOT make it a reality.  You ever try and ask your power company to correct the direction of the wires connecting your house to the local transformer?  Interesting these same wires do NOT have little arrows on them to assist with this too.  Its only high prices audio cable that have them.

Geofkait, how would one reverse the direction of a balanced cable?  the ends are different, should i send them back to the company who made them and have the wire direction reversed?  Assuming they would not laugh at me how would they prove that they did it without little arrows on the wire??

I recently had to disconnect the main power at my house from the street transformer, i asked the guy from the power company about reversing the wires to get the directionality right and he laughed at me, asked what the hell i was talking about.  I mentioned your name Geoff, said you were an expert about wire directionality!  Seriously though, he asked how you measured the difference.  He also mentioned the fact that AC current goes back and forth at 60HZ so half the time it would be WRONG if wire were directional.

It seems the guys who work on AC current every single day have not been trained on wire directionality OR, maybe it just does not exist!

GeoffKait,

I’m only quoting the advice you give everyone on this site, to reverse the direction of their wires because they will hear a difference. You never considered that many of use balanced cables and there is no way to do that after the cable is made.  In addition, asking the cable manufacture to construct a balanced cable with the “proper” directionality only gets crickets or laughter because they can’t measure OR hear any difference either direction the cable goes.

So somehow the AC current between an AMP to a speaker behaves differently than the AC current for power to the amp?   BTW, if the signal does not go the opposite direction the AC circuit wont work!

There may be many people who don’t understand how a CD player or a combustion engine works, for sure there are plenty of people on this forum who give flaky Pseudoscience advice!