glubson, why in the World are you misquoting me? Is this part of some sort of ill conceived new disinformation and misinformation campaign? Not that you would know the difference. |
What if the cable manufacturer did break them in and didn’t tell anyone?
You buy the cable and break it in again. Would you hear a difference? |
My belief is that any cable when you disconnect it actually forgets all about how to transport a signal from one point to another. So it needs a break-in again. And once breaked-in also a little settling-in will do good. You can see this final part as a welcoming handshake between the speaker and the cable. |
It is all about emotions. |
Glubson illustrates the subtle shadings in difference among the words retried, retired, retorted, retarded, retreated and retread. 😛
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gosta, "...any cable when you disconnect it actually forgets all about how to transport a signal from one point to another..." Ginko is said to work well with short-term memory issues. How about coating cables in Ginko-derived envelope? That may be a next break-through on this burn-in/settle-in topic. Significantly improved spatial orientation, too. |
Why do cable-cookers exist? Hint: it's getting near Thanksgiving. |
Memory? I had a set of cables with amnesia too! Gonna try shock therapy next. |
Yes. Playing music through your cables for a hundred hours is in essence shock therapy. Finally resolution |
@glupson.... "So I just took all my cables and dragged them around out in the snow...."Nothing works like good old cryoing the cables. And you did it in organic and gluten-free way. Kudos to you. No wonder they sounded better. Could ears falling off have also influenced the sound to some extent? Maybe that is all that Van Gogh was trying to achieve. Get sweeter timbre and faster transients."
Yes, I actually forgot to put down a flap on my Russian snow hat.....lost an ear. Much sweeter transients and timbre on my right side..... Happy for that balance knob too. Plus had to upgrade the gauge of speaker wire on the left side to help compensate. Thank you Home Depot..... |
What an absolute load of bunk, burning in cables and settling time.
Recording studios must be really messed up, they can't let the patch cables get enough "settling time" between changing patch points.
The fantasy some people will believe. PT Barnum laughs from beyond the grave.
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It can’t be bunk. You can only de-dunk something that is bunk to begin with. Besides how can PT Barnum be laughing from beyond the grave? Did he get out of his grave and go somewhere? Is he a zombie?
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Burn in and settling in doesn’t cost anything !!?!! |
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Listening to Jenny Lind today. On very old cables. After a long settling-in.
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My Recent Experience
I have recently installed new Speaker cables, Interconnects,and Power cable ... all from the same US manufacturer. all at the same time
Recommended burn in time 200hrs
What i found was:-
Up to 10hrs .. not very impressive
Approximately 20hrs .. amazing mid and treble (low end still quite light)
Around 40 - 50 hrs .. in comes the low end and impressive separation of instruments and very realistic soundstage
At 80hrs .. Beyond any doubt these cables are incredible
At 100+ .. Never enjoyed recorded music so much
So yes, giving cables a reasonable time to "burn in" has worked for me
Thanks to the members with the humorous and Tongue in Cheek posts
Just loved the humour
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It's possible to be humorous without belittling or disrespecting another's opinion. Interesting thread for sure and I had some good laughs myself... |
Well, let’s not get too crazy. 🤗 |
Once upon a time this thread was about settling time (rather than burn-in), i.e. time a fully burned-in cable needed to settle after it was disconnected and/or moved. |
a thread going off topic !!! it actually seems most here equate the 2 |
Turn on, burn in, drop dead. - Alfred E. Newman
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100 years from now probably nothing will matter to any of us so what’s your point? This is here and now.
No, you don’t have to be an audiophile to participate here but some experience/knowledge would be helpful don’tcha think?
Please always remember: Burn-in is better than burn-out. |
