Do speaker cables need a burn in period?


I have heard some say that speaker cables do need a 'burn in', and some say that its totally BS.
What say you?


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"Free" is not free. They already took into account the cost and added to the overall cost. Like I said, it costs money to perform cable burn in. I suspect if they have only one Nordost Vidar Machine. I doubt they can burn in too many cables and it appears like a marketing ploy so that they can claim they provide burn in service. To fully burn in a cable, it may take up to 300hr. How many cables do you think they can burn in using one Nordost Vidar Machine? Simple math really.

Now they can purchase more burn in machine but I don’t think nobody will give them the machine for free.  Looking at their website, they sell hundreds of brands of cable.  Hm.... how many of that can be burned-in?  My guess they can only offer burn in if the cables cost north of $7K lols.

Our cable burn-in service is a non-chargeable service and is provided by Future Shop at its discretion. We will attempt to fulfill all burn-in requests for the specified time periods. However, during extremely busy periods, we regret we may not be able to meet the demand for all requests due to the limited connections available on the Nordost Vidar cable conditioning machines.
Like I said before, just a quick look around would dispel any questions:
https://forum.audiogon.com/search/index?utf8=%E2%9C%93&query=cable+burn+in+services

There's more as well using other search parameters.

All the best,
Nonoise
Cable burn in service "for free".  Oh wait it doesn't exist.  Its interesting how one is willing to disprove oneself.  
Free burn in on all cables on their custom cable burn in unit (and they are not $7,000 cables):    https://www.avantiaudio.com/cable-conditioning.html

Cable loaner program (prices start at $700). Cables are burned-in before shipping:    https://www.taralabs.com/cable-loaners

Only charges $10 using off the shelf device (one built for MFG would be much less):   https://completecableconcepts.com/collections/cable-conditioning

That was just a quick search. It is a marketing decision, and it could be done very cheaply in production.