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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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sarcher30
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Runnin, that is correct. Also the wires need to be separated enough to not short out with each other. Using some form of insulation is unavoidable.

Yping, On the subject of annealing, you need to get copper red hot in order to anneal it. Which is over 840 degrees F. If your cables are getting anywhere near 840 degress F in use or on a cable burn in machine you will have a fire and burn all the insulation off the wire. So please pick a more likely theory than finishing of the annealing process.
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rja
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Yping did not put the annealing completion out there, he quoted KLE Innovations opinion.
Personally, I have no opinion on the annealing thing.
However, I have a high opinion of KLE Innovations products.
czarivey
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i'd cooked medium rare air with at least beer.
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geoffkait
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It just occurred to me that the manufacturers of cable would be well advised to add heat tempering to the metal conductor manufacturing process in addition to cold tempering (cryo) which most of the high end cable companies already do. Just thinking out loud.
yping OP
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... heat tempering to the metal conductor manufacturing process in addition to cold tempering (cryo)
Geoffkait, would you call cold tempering (cryo) an annealing process? If yes, then I guess Cooking/Burnin could be called an electrical annealing process or simply, an extension/continuance of the annealing process :)
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