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Reliable burn-in service for cables and outlets
Hello Audiogoners' I am looking for a reliable source to provide burn-in service for AC outlets and various cables. based on your experience, is there someone you can recommend. On a side note, please share your experience and let me know if burning in process and cryogenics really has a positive effect on sound. Thanks for your kind responses.
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Flipping the direction of the IC’s from source to linestage, the vocals become unintelligible and music sounds odd.Put them back as the arrows indicate, vocals/music fine.Yes if you use rca interconnects with two wire (red/black) + shield, if they did it right thing, the shield is only connected to the black at one end. This end is used to dump any RF collected by the shield to ground, at the least sensitive component in the chain, and should be the way the arrow points if there. Cheers George |
Things to remember. If your cables and power cords aren't Cryo'd they should be. Most high end cable manufacturers Cryo their cables but some don't. All DIY cables should be cryo'd. All wire is directional so if your cables and interconnects are unshielded try both directions to see which way sounds best. Break in devices and break in tracks such as the one on XLO Test CD and other test CDs are superior to breaking in cables using music. |
For you interconnects, use this free pink noise generator on line. Use the pink noise up full, feed it into your interconnect, terminate the other end of your interconnect cable with 1/2w 1kohm resistor let it run all night. all week, for what good it will do.? https://simplynoise.com/ Cheers George |
Dave thanks so much for your insightful comments. The main reasons I posted the question is that I am installing new Romex 10AWG dedicated on a 20amp circuit to supply power to my equipment (250w SS amp and CD player). I plan on purchasing cryo treated Romex and also have a Furutech GTX-D Rodium outlet. I was curious if paying extra to cry treat the Romex was worth it and also having the outlet go through burn-in on a cooker. You seemed to confirm that it is. Thanks again and best regards. |
Burn in will not turn a Sow into a Silk Purse .. it will not turn a $199 dac into a $10K state of the art performer What ever the original sonic characteristic of the component is burn in will not change that What does improves with burn in is .. Dynamics .. treble and bass become more extended ... midrange always sounds very congested like your talking with a cloth pin on your nose ... this will improve and the sound stage sounds congealed like a ball in between your speaker ... most enjoy a good center fill ... but the congealing sounds as if everyone is playing shoulder to shoulder with no space in between them like you are on a crowed subway car ... this will also come to pass with time and the sound stage will open up and spread Some claim things get warmer but I think that is the annoying midrange congestion going away One of the easiest ways to accelerate break in is to use a Purist Audio Design break in disc ... run the disc as prescribed for 6 cycles or about 7 hours continuously and it will get you most of the way there ... if you listen to the test tones when you first play the disc they will sound obnoxious but at the 5 hour mark you will hear the test tones sound much cleaner and distinct A side benefit to running the PAD disc is it will cause the insects As far as cryoing .. I found it a mixed bag .. I've had ICs S/Cable Power Cords .. Outlets .. Fuses and RCA and speaker binding post connectors done I every case the effect was immediate and perceivable .. it makes the presentation sound dead silent ... a very eerie type of quietness ... like walking into a library .. the silences is deafening ... but it is also dull and dumbed down lacking in something that just draws you into the music Less fill or more taste .. your chose .. I think there are other ways to reduce the noise floor that don't effect the presentation ... JMO
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