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Re: Check your Myth

But you do not "listen" to the voltage, you listen to the current as speakers are current driven devices.

I will use the old water in a pipe analogy here. Voltage is the water pressure, current is the actual water flowing through the pipe. When you drink that water the pressure is not what you taste.

Voltage is electrical potential.
Current is electron flow.

But of course as Ohms law clearly proves they are related as you can not have one without the other.

Actully I take back a bit of what I said at 6:30am this morning...

I was thinking only in DC terms, but since audio is AC there will be just as much current flowing through Rx as Ry. During each half cycle the current will flow from the respective negitive potential of the source. On one half of the cycle current flows from the source through Rx then Ry and back to the source. On the other half of the cycle current flows from the source through Ry then Rx and back to the source.

So you are right both resistors are of equal importance.

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