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RE: How to Determine Speaker Direction when no Indicators?

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In Reply to: RE: How to Determine Speaker Direction when no Indicators? posted by HiOnFi on July 28, 2024 at 13:05:36

If no writing of any kind, how do you know they are "high end"?
If the manufacturer did not label the cables for directionality, then there is no guarantee that using the direction of the writing (what writing?) gives any clue to directionality, if any. So in the end, just hook them up, choose a direction, and listen. Then after several days, reverse the direction. To get really anal, you would need to do each channel as a separate experiment, since we don't know if the maker had any direction in mind.

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RE: How to Determine Speaker Direction when no Indicators? - HiOnFi 16:55:52 07/30/24 (5)
Trust me, they are. Been in hi-end audio 4+ decades, including owning a store
- RE: How to Determine Speaker Direction when no Indicators? - Geoffkait 02:35:27 07/31/24 (4)
  "Having 4+ decades in this hobby" is a well-known logical fallacy. So is owning a store. :-)
  - RE: How to Determine Speaker Direction when no Indicators? - Lew 11:54:01 08/02/24 (3)
    And so might be the idea that wires inherently have directionality. But there are too many believers for me to want to come across as a nihilist.
    - Search this forum and 200 records pop up for the word directionality. Nt. - Geoffkait 12:02:52 08/02/24 (2)
      Nt
      - Like I said... - Lew 13:10:55 08/02/24 (1)
        
        In Reply to: RE: Search this forum and 200 records pop up for the word directionality. Nt. posted by Geoffkait on August 02, 2024 at 12:02:52
        
        Far be it from me to go against such a strong base of believers. And it's not that I don't believe wires can have directionality; it's that it was never convincingly demonstrated to me.
        I surely do not believe that measuring DC resistance in both directions is going to determine directionality for audio purposes. In fact, if DCR is different in one direction vs the other (for a straight wire), that is due to experimental error.
        
        Edits: 08/02/24
        
        Huh?! What believers? Are you hot dogging me? - Geoffkait 13:51:49 08/02/24 (0)
        
        In Reply to: RE: Like I said... posted by Lew on August 02, 2024 at 13:10:55
        
        Nt

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