Best interconnect burn-in method
I think I know the answer to this, but I just wanted to double check with everyone. I am in the process of burning in an XLR interconnect. The interconnect is between the DAC and the integrated amp. I am using a laptop as the source, and it is connecting via USB cable to the DAC. Is it true that I am still burning in the XLR IC if I leave the integrated amp turned off while playing music continuously on my laptop with the DAC turned on? Thank you for your input.
Who's zooming who? Let's clear this whole skin effect thing up for once and for all. Here's the link to AudioQuest's page on cable theory. Zoom on down the page for discussion of skin effect in audio cables. Read em and weep. http://www.audioquest.com/pdfs/aq_cable_theory.pdf |
or something not from a cable manufacturer https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skin_effect good read if your up to some of the math. you'll notice most of the issues are above Mhz ranges. with mitigation for anything below solved/ mitigated mostly by Litz wound wire for example. For example at 60hz the skin effect depth is 8.5mm in copper getting thinner form there of course as the frequencies go up. Anyway I say this and I own Siltec wire so I do believe there is better sound to be had by better construction etc. |
All those formulas and the theories and the generalizations (self admitted generalizations) in that wiki page on skin effect were idealized, tested, hypothesized, realized, etc (however one may wish to put it) with solidus lattice structures. Not conductive fluids. One can make a hollow cylinder of conductive fluids and drop a magnet down that cylinder and the result will be different than if done with a copper tube. Lenz is still happening but...differently. Lenz, and everything else involving electrical formulae... as the vast majority know and expect it.... was based on the analysis of conductive solidus atomic lattice structure. As the medium is not the same (with conductive fluids). The complexity of the mathematics shoots through the roof into the impractical and (currently) incalculable. We can make some general bits of analysis, but not much more than that, at this time. Additionally, the page from wiki speaks not on the underlying meaning and origins of the observation of ’skin effect’. Just the practical engineering mathematics. If one wants to understand the limitations of the mathematics, then the page does exactly squat. It’s very simple: The Map Is Not The Territory. It is on the edge of such realities that the page from wiki can and does devolve into potential misrepresentation - as dogma. Big problem. |
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