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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.
yping
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nonoise
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Good point. Annealing has to allow slow cooling to strengthen the metal (or glass) and to remove impurities. This makes me wonder if it's doable with a high dose of cable cooking vs just playing music. It's probable that it all winds up the same in the end and only the quickness of the annealing process is accomplished. Smarter people than me need to chime in.

All the best,
Nonoise
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Cryoing I would think best described as dealing with the crystal structure of the metal. Maybe you could say just another form of tempering, like heat tempering. This is not to say that cryoing would not improve the performance of the other materials as well.
yping OP
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By what you have written, cooking/burning/cryoing/settling, it could be interpreted (not interrupted) as a further form of the annealing process, right :)

Yes, info for thought :)
yping OP
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Yes, Good or Bad ... that is a question :)
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geoffkait
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Good or bad? Haha! Good! There is no debate about it any longer. The debate occurred twenty years ago. :-(
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