Burn In speakercable

[PaleRider]

Another hifi-legend based on some truth and a lot of rubbish. Some passive components really do need a long burn-in, like big "nullohmspuhlen" & tinfiol-caps. Cables might change more or less, depending on "construction".
I`m using really thick solid core as speakerwires, and the copper shure needs to be played rough for about one hour to open up, definitly wery audible.

Seems like every material has some static load that needs to be scared away, more or less

[Speedskater]

Originally Posted by Mooly

As strange as it sounds
In idle bored moments I have "wondered" on the audible effect, if any, of introducing a very low amplitude high frequency "bias" to the amp output terminals. Perhaps around 200khz, pure sine at less than 100mv. The zobel network and output inductor would block it's entry into the amp.

I think that something like this happens often with DIY audio gear. Components are changed and a unit starts an ultra-sonic oscillation or ringing. Or maybe the new un-shielded interconnects pick-up interference. Either add some fuzziness or brightness that the listener calls an improvement.

[JE]

@ PaleRider, you say "the copper shure needs to be played rough for about one hour to open up", but can you explain why it should be played for about an hour or so?

I still can't figure why this should help, except for replacing the old by new electrons als earlier predicted

[Netlist]

See post #2

/Hugo

[analog_sa]

Originally Posted by JE

As far as I am concerned, a cable is just a piece of copper

And you started a new cable thread because the old one could not cater for such an unorthodox opinion?

[jleaman]

Originally Posted by sy

do it if it makes you feel better. There is absolutely zero evidence, measured or subjective, that "burning in" a cable does anything other than keep the audiophile busy for a while. That doesn't prevent lots of people from claiming that it's efficacious, but those claims do beg the question of "is it in the wire or in the head?"

done and done!

[PaleRider]

It`s facinating to observe how those whith less experiece seems to have the strongest opinions. If you can`t hear anything and never seriously tryed, why then waist your precious time on audio

[jleaman]

Originally Posted by PaleRider

It`s facinating to observe how those whith less experiece seems to have the strongest opinions. If you can`t hear anything and never seriously tryed, why then waist your precious time on audio

it's called asking a question, second it's called learning!

[wakibaki]

If it takes a week to walk a fortnight, how long would it take a flea with clogs on to walk through a barrel of tar?

It's one of those things they tell kids in jest and then some adults were taken in and then some unscrupulous people realised they could live off the credulous people but you know the old cyepitalist maxim:- 'never give a sucker an even break'

Originally Posted by Maurice Saatchi

It is not enough to succeed, others must fail...

You can go on milking this issue for the correspondence it generates, but that's all you're doing. Everything meaningful on the subject has been said.

w

As long as it takes to sandpaper an elephant down to the size of a greyhound or to whitewash Mount Everest with a pennyworth of black lead.

[PaleRider]

Originally Posted by jleaman

it's called asking a question, second it's called learning!

My comment was not ment as an answer to your post, just a general comment. Should have been posted in the cable-thread though