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Burning in cables? 103pages... ?
I won't claim to know all the physics although I have studied both physics and eletronics measuring.
I can't possibly decide if there's any validity to the "burning in" cables however it does sound doubtful.
Even if one can detect difference the question becomes wherther or ot the differences are audiable and in the end no-one wins.
I have heard differences in cables, once that I remember. I had bought a set of new speaker wires mostly for the looks. I said to myself "I've upgraded evertything else so Ill buy a decent set and be done with it."
I never acutally exected anything from them besides looking good.
You can imagine my surprize when I plugged them in and there was a big difference in the sound. Even my half deaf father in law wondered what I'd done?
It could have been faulty connections or whatever but the difference was there non the less.
I think we did a DBT with IC's as well and actually did find some differences but it was almost impossible to be sure.
Another time we did a serious DBT with power amps in the $1000-$1500 range. It was difficult to pinpoint any real differenes, however there were some surprizes.
The winner by almost unianimous decision was the priceiest amp but the runner up by unanimous decision was the control amp, a NAD2100 for a fraction of the cost.
So what's my point?
Blind tests can be difficult, very difficult but sometimes there are also audiable differences with different cables. It can be as simple as shoddy connections on one pair or something else entirely?
Still there is a lot to be had by serious testing and hard proof. If there are facts to be had I'd like to see them first. If there are no proof It becomes much harder to convince me there are differences.
It'll be very interesting to see the results of any upcoming tests.
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