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Cable Cooking/Burnin

I read this on KLE Innovations, http://kleinnovations.com/kle-innovations-klei-products/essence-gzero-ic/, and wondered what your thoughts on Cable Cooking/Burnin might be ...

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.
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rodman99999
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@Yping- That's also my method for interconnects, using the 'Irrational But Efficacious' CD's pink, white and brown noise tracks, on repeat. Personally, I feel like running in cables, at the voltages/currents they will see in use, is best. Whatever device the cable outputs to, I leave off, as the device's input impedance will complete the connection. (http://www.musicdirect.com/p-6813-cardas-ayre-acoustics-irrational-but-efficacious-ibe-burn-in-cd.aspx)
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geoffkait
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I don't use cables per se so I can't comment.
yping OP
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I use cables per se that is why I am asking :)
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tom6897
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Touche', I say to your per se.
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geoffkait
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No matter how expensive the cables are and how long you burn them in ultimately the odds are that the sound will not be as good in many respects as the situation with *no cables per se*. By having *no cables per se* (only the tiny 1 meter ultralight headphone cables) I avoid all the pitfalls associated with the house AC, with power cables that generate magnetic fields (that distort the sound), with vibration and magnetic fields (that uh distort the sound) generated by transformers, issues with connectors, issues with large capacitors, with wall outlets, wall duplex covers, all of those things and more. Not to mention the enormous cost associated with actually getting the various cables and cords I would like to become accustomed to having.
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