What do we hear when we change the direction of a wire?

I was picking up modified CD player at a Chicago shop.  The designer took a Phillips CD player and modified the power supply and capacitors and received favorable reviews.  After a year he offered an upgraded model and would upgrade the original model for cost.  My wife and I were waiting at the owners home while he was in traffic. His wife let us wait in the listening room and I used the remote for the player.  I was describing how much better the upgrades made in the sq and looking forward to my unit. Unknown that at the bottoms shelf was had the original player and was actually the source to the preamp.   Pretty embarrassing 

I can’t believe there is actually a thread about this.  Who cares? The never ending pursuit for perfect sound doesn’t exist.  All this stuff means nothing. What a waste of time.

There is really only be one reason for an interconnect to be directional and that is when the shielding is connected to one end of the cable.

Thank God GAS passes one direction, you'd be smellin' your own FARTS.. Cable is the same way.. But that gas may have come out of your ears, for all I know. Maybe you do have a gas problem.. I know your full of,  well let's just call it misinformation.. BUT it's actually $hit..

You two stick around, for 10 more minutes and READ. Instead of talk..

Please don't show you're complete dummies..

Again Semi-Regard.. I'll give you a 6 out of 10 on the regard scale..

The only people I know of who run wires in reverse do so in the basements of churches. Apparently, they hear some pretty dark stuff...

I find the idea of listening to an entire spool of wire a very interesting idea. Always appreciated/enjoyed calculus. The whole idea of what happens when you look at something at its infinite limit. Is it zero, one or infinity.

At some point, at some length, if that wire was polled out all in the same direction during manufacturing process, it becomes a little easier to grasp how directionality becomes something that would be readily identifiable.

Would be very interested in doing that experiment. Also curious how that spool effects the SQ - being that a spool is an inductor?

Look what happens moving speakers a few inches in any direction in your room. Run a 50hz tone through them, walk around and note where the signal drops out, becomes a droning mess or is crystal clear. Move the speakers a few inches, try it again. It makes a difference.

I listen to the radio - a lot. Some days, the signal is so clear I absolutely love listening to the SQ coming out of my tuner. Other days, there is so much static and noise its just an exercise in frustration. And then, if the muting is on, walking around the room will make the signal appear and disappear.

Everything has an impact on how something sounds. And not everything that has an impact on SQ can be measured. Roller blocks under gear for example. What is the measurement there?

Why do certain tubes sound the way they do? Same tube type, different manufacturer, same measurements, different SQ.

It ain’t magic, although it might as well be given how some NEED the measurements on anything in order for it to be real.

Could be, some systems, and the rooms they are in are just not conducive to being able to hear any differences this small - they get lost in the noise of the space. Or, the listener is unable to discern any difference, either because of physical limitations, lack of knowing what to listen for or some other reason. Look at people trying to taste the difference between wines. Some don’t get it at all. Some sommeliers are sooooo good, and have studied so much that they can identify the sub region where a wine came from and when it was produced.