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


Douglas Self wrote a devastating article about audio anomalies back in 1988. With all the necessary knowledge and measuring tools, he did not detect any supposedly audible changes in the electrical signal. Self and his colleagues were sure that they had proved the absence of anomalies in audio, but over the past 30 years, audio anomalies have not disappeared anywhere, at the same time the authority of science in the field of audio has increasingly become questioned. It's hard to believe, but science still cannot clearly answer the question of what electricity is and what sound is! (see article by A.J.Essien).

For your information: to make sure that no potentially audible changes in the electrical signal occur when we apply any "audio magic" to our gear, no super equipment is needed. The smallest step-change in amplitude that can be detected by ear is about 0.3dB for a pure tone. In more realistic situations it is 0.5 to 1.0dB'". This is about a 10% change. (Harris J.D.). At medium volume, the voltage amplitude at the output of the amplifier is approximately 10 volts, which means that the smallest audible difference in sound will be noticeable when the output voltage changes to 1 volt. Such an error is impossible not to notice even using a conventional voltmeter, but Self and his colleagues performed much more accurate measurements, including ones made directly on the music signal using Baxandall subtraction technique - they found no error even at this highest level.

As a result, we are faced with an apparently unsolvable problem: those of us who do not hear the sound of wires, relying on the authority of scientists, claim that audio anomalies are BS. However, people who confidently perceive this component of sound are forced to make another, the only possible conclusion in this situation: the electrical and acoustic signals contain some additional signal(s) that are still unknown to science, and which we perceive with a certain sixth sense.

If there are no electrical changes in the signal, then there are no acoustic changes, respectively, hearing does not participate in the perception of anomalies. What other options can there be?

Regards.
anton_stepichev
The ear, again, is a bunch of receptor behind band-pass filters effectively. That is the sensor. That says nothing about the processing behind it, whether there is crosstalk, etc.


Békésy claim that the ear dont function like a fourrier analyser at all....Like Essien... like Ansermet...



NO ONE has claimed this in over 100 years. This is not news. Essien has brought exactly 0 to the argument. Heck, if people listened to him, we would be going backwards. He proudly bleats that he has discovered something new. For him maybe. He quotes decades if not 100+ year old references to justify his bleating, meanwhile ignoring decades and decades of deep work into how human hearing works.  He is an artist, trying to tell a rocket scientist how propulsion works, using feelings. 
is pitch perception totally reducible to frequencies?
you must answer to my question....

You have already claimed that to me i assume your opinion has not changed....

NO ONE has claimed this in over 100 years. This is not news
Then why BÉKÉSY feel the urge to denounciate this reduction exactly 50 years ago ? Békésy know what he speak about in hearing theory, his Nobel prize come from his research in this field....This not an authority argument this is a fact that reinforce the perspective of what he said and from which context...
He quotes decades if not 100+ year old references
Sorry to contradict you he quoted the more recent references in acoustic, i OWN the 500 pages book just published...The book is in my hand... 😊 Ansermet book also....

Absolutely nothing.

Nope, NASA never cared about the directionality of cabling...
Except when the Gorilla tried to put the round end into the square end.
I wouldn't be lumping Bekesy in this argument as agreeing with Essien. I would need to see the reference where this quote of Bekesy came from. From what little I understand Bekesy is being used out of context here 
was always clear that the ear does not react like a simple Fourier frequency
analyzer.
I wouldn’t be lumping Bekesy in this argument as agreeing with Essien.

 Békésy cannot agree with a future writer after his death... But he was one of those who prove that there is more than Fourrier analysis to hearing.... His Nobel prize is linked to that....

Are you an authority in acoustic now?

Did you read Essien? if so, what does he speak about?

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BéKÉSY : The Missing Fundamental and Periodicity Detection in Hearing 1972