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"It's a misconception that the audio signal travels at light-speed"

Since the time it takes for the signal to leave the amplifier and arrive at the speaker terminals, as well as how long it takes for the speaker to radiate sound (vastly longer) is easily measured and the latter part of determining acoustic phase, perhaps you mean that cables have a audio signal propagation speed slightly less than the speed of light in Vacuum?

"Just because you haven't run into wire directionalitnin text books and such doesn't mean it doesn't exist. As I said all that required is to use your own ears. Reverse the direction of any fuse or nay cable and it will sound correct in one direction and relatively unantaural in the other direction."

I asked because i work with this stuff, am curious and have never observed anything that would suggest a preferred direction, or that the signal going to the speaker is altered by cable direction vs primary and secondary electrical properties.

My quest was to see if this is an engineering phenomena or a change which is within ones perception, potentially a result of changing too many (more than one) variables at once and not an electrical phenomena..

Our sense of acoustic reality is after all a combination of what we hear, see and already know and is why testing ones ears alone (a test without knowledge of which is A and B) usually gives results which are much less clear that sighted testing and so, shunned by the marketing forces based on a perception of change.
In that domain,working in this area, my increased skepticism may prevent me from hearing what you do if i had cables marked with direction.

So i would ask the same two opinion questions is the significant change you hear electrical / acoustic engineering or of knowledge and perception?

So does this audible wire directional effect change the electrical signal going to the speaker in any way?

Or does it make the audible change to the speaker's sound without changing the electrical signal?

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