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You're a smart man Dean. Mark On Thursday, March 28, 2002, at 09:58 AM, Dean Stiglitz wrote: > i'm no electronics whiz, but correct me if i'm wrong here: > > when a guitar string is vibrating (oscilating), the "signal" > (electrical current) swings back and forth between positive and > negative...the positive and negative may not be exact mirror images of > each other, but very, very close. the result at the end of the chain > is a speaker diaphram oscillating inward and outward in correspondence > to the vibrating string (save for any fx or processing in between). > there is never a flow of current leaving the guitar pickup that is not > compensated for by an equal, opposite current (at least when averaged > over time)....the speaker cone does not walk across the floor. > > the illustration would be more like holding a streched out slinky in > both hands...moving one hand will cause a "wave" that goes to the other > hand, and then bounces back to the source...as opposed to having a ball > of string in one hand and feeding it to the other hand. > > since the flow of electrons is bidirectional, and the negative current > affects the sound just as much as the positive current, i can't imagine > any reason that an electrical cable would have a directional bias...if > it's more effecient, distortion free, or magical in one direction, when > the flow of electrons is reversed (when the string goes to the other > side of the pickup), it would follow that the extra directional "magic" > would not be applied. if you reversed the cable, the benifits of the > directional cable would still apply to the signal in an equal way (as > the neg part of the waveform is not discarded, but vibrates the air in > the opposite direction). > > i could imagine that there might be differances in cable direction with > a dc current (is spidf a dc current...i think so...that might explain > the audiophile analysis provided). > > deknow >