Cable Cooking/Burnin
Burnin/Cooking Time
We believe that the Burnin/Cooking process can be thought of as an extension/finishing of the Annealing process.
This is a practice that can dramatically/drastically improve performance and has been gaining acceptance from HiFi enthusiasts :) Usually, any listener will be able to identify a marked change/improvement in audio component performance within the first 100 or more hours of use, whether it be a cable, connector, component or loudspeaker.
Burnin/Cooking time is the process whereby electrical signal/charge gradually settles/corrects/aligns dielectric, electromagnetic, and material (metal and non-metal) issues that occur/result during the construction process. These aspects are often and usually found in Cables/Connectors and usually results in a brittle, bright, muddy, non-cohesive sound that lacks the Detail, Resolution, Timbre, PRaT, Harmonic Texture, Organicness, Naturalness, and Staging which is desired for music reproduction. Burnin/Cooking Time improves the way that signal passes through the conductors and dielectrics and it is the resulting changes in signal transmission that refines and defines the performance of the audio cables.
While it is most important to implement Burnin/Cooking Time, upon purchase, routine maintenance is always important, also. Cables/Connectors that have not been played, or left unused, for long/prolonged periods of time, may become stagnant and again require Burnin/Cooking Time.
Philipwu, If I were you I would email or phone Alan at: http://www.audioexcellenceaz.com/ and discuss your question with him. Alan would know the correct answer. |
I received my Cable Cooker the other day and love it. I have a technical question for those more versed in the science than I. I was trolled and ridiculed on Head-Fi for talking about the cooker with a couple of respondents saying 'you can do the same thing with a $75 signal generator or a CD of the signals used by the cooker.' My understanding is there is a lot more science to it than that, particularly the high output levels the Audiodharma generated. I was hoping someone could comment on that. FWIW, I closed my account on Head-Fi. While there are some good folk on that forum there are also a lot of losers that sound as if they still live in their parents basement. I would never knock someone enjoying music on an inexpensive headphone based system because that's what they can afford (been there/know that feeling) all the talk of 'you're an idiot, my $10 interconnects are as good as any $2k cables out there' gets a little tiresome. |
