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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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geoffkait
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Sorry for the AutoCorrect failure, unfortunate choice of words but not mine. I blame Apple. OK, so now we have a theory for CDs, Cryogenics or freezing improves the transparency. Without saying whether I agree with you or not, let me ask another question, What is the reason why LPs sound better after cryo/freezing? In fact, let me just cut to the chase and make a bold statement: cryoing or freezing ANYTHING produces better sound. Even things completely unrelated to the audio system.
theaudiotweak
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Yep..energy is always in a search for a better pathway to ground. Whether energy is riding in it or on it. Tom
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Tom, oh, no, not THAT again. Haha!
yping OP
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{Signal charge/energy} energy is always in a search for a better pathway to ground
Signal charge/energy ... sounds reasonable :)

cryoing or freezing ANYTHING produces better sound. Even things completely unrelated to the audio system
Maybe :)
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Yping wrote,

""cryoing or freezing ANYTHING produces better sound. Even things completely unrelated to the audio system."

Maybe."

I trust you read between the lines that IF it's true, what I said, that cryoing or freezing ANYTHING is good for the sound it becomes harder and harder to attribute the reason to annealing or atomic structure reorganization or higher performance of the material in the traditional sense of the term: stronger, more ductile, harder, less brittle, etc. That is not to say these things aren't taking place. It's just that the operating mechanism is more mysterious.
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