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Negative vs positive results

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In Reply to: RE: Oh, brother, it's getting deep around here posted by Ugly on November 19, 2022 at 09:45:30

No, positive results are not the same as negative results. Negative results from a single test have no meaning. But positive results are more meaningful because they were positive in spite of the many possible pitfalls of any test.
One person's listening skill might not be up to the level of someone else's. If you don't know what directionality sounds like you might not hear it the first time around. That's what I meant by listener skill being unreliable. You can't drag some guy in off the street and expect him to hear directionality.
It's not difficult to control any wire or cable for directionality, but obviously you have to know how todo it. One hint is control the wire as soon as it comes off the spool, then you know it's all in the same direction, label the wire on both ends to keep track. AudioQuest (and others) has been doing this for many years so obviously it's not prohibitively expensive.
For fuses, the wire doesn't have to be controlled during manufacture because it's very simple to reverse the fuse in its holder and decide which way sounds best. The key is to get on board the directionality train. Toot, toot!
Finally, in an AC circuit there are two wires, one carries the electrical signal in one direction while the electrical signal travel in the opposite direction at the same time. The signals alternate direction on each wire according to the instantaneous audio frequency. Follow?

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