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In Reply to: RE: True ... posted by andyr on May 19, 2022 at 15:40:26

The truck is the electrical signal IS the music signal. It's the alternating electric field that interacts with the permanent magnet on the speaker diaphragm that produces the entire waveform, each wire +and - transmits half the waveform as alternating electric fields. There are also alternating magnetic fields, these fields e and m are produced by the moving charges (electrons) that wiggle to and fro on the + and - wires.
The voltage is also a calculated number and has no direction, it's also a scalar quantity, like current. Neither one is a vector.
The amount of current - which is a calculated number - is a function of how many electrons can travel x distance so obviously thicker wire can support higher currents. It's a little misleading to call the speaker cable or any circuit AC since current is a calculated number, current doesn't alternate, it has no direction. It should be called alternating electron circuit. I have refrained from getting into power density and Poynting vectors as that unnecessarily complicates things. Although the e and m fields are associated with the Poynting vector.
So, it takes both wires + and minus to make the system work, they are not a signal wire and a return wire as Bob Crump stated. There is no "audio signal" or "music signal" other than the e field part of the electromagnetic wave. The speaker cable is acting like a push-pull force that moves the speaker diaphragm in and out according to the "audio waveform" generate by the amps.
This description of how the "audio signal" is transmitted over speaker cables implies that for best results orient both wires such that their best sounding direction is toward the speakers. You can forget about the electrons traveling in the opposite direction. But you don't have the two wires oriented opposite to each other as Bob indicated. That defeats the purpose of controlling directionality of the wire off the big spool.

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