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RE: A good practice. The electron is one millionth the size of the

"Thus, the actual drift speed of these electrons through the conductor is very small in the direction of current."

> > > > > But current doesn't have any direction. It's a scalar quantity. Only the electrons have direction, which is constantly reversing since audio circuits are almost all AC circuits. Furthermore, the distance traveled by an electron at any one time (half cycle) is almost zero distance since electrons change direction so rapidly and move so slowly. I estimate without doing the math, someone can check it out, the electron moves only about a millionth of an inch at a time, so, I implore you, wouldn't it be fair to say electrons don't move in an audio cable?

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