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Conditioning/Burn-In Method

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Now, to business.

I'm in the process of working in a set of Signal Cable Silver Resolution XLR interconnects between my DAC, Preamp and Amplifier. So far, I probably have only 20 hours or so of play, and if memory serves, Frank recommends 60 hours or more. Given the difference in amplitude from DAC to Preamp, and from Preamp to Amplifier, do you guys think it might be worth swapping them out (rotating them) to help balance and perhaps accelerate the process?

Thanks in advance!

parabolic
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@lak I think you missed the part where I wrote a couple times that I WORK FROM HOME and can't run speakers at volume for 200 hours.
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lak
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@parabolic, if you are just breaking in interconnects and speaker cables you don't need any volume, just the signal. Are you trying to break in new speakers also?
I apologize if I missed something here?
Best regards...
gdnrbob
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Perhaps this is an Almarg question:
Does the cable need to be run at a high volume?
I mean that music is dynamic, having loud and soft passages.
Wouldn't running the system on a low volume when you need to work still accomplish the goal?
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Perhaps this is an Almarg question:
Does the cable need to be run at a high volume?
Hi Bob,

All I can offer about that is the common sense notion that whatever breakin effects might occur at high volume would presumably take longer to occur at low volume, and perhaps much longer. But I doubt that anyone is in a position to provide a quantitative perspective on that, especially in a way that would be useful across a wide variety of cable designs, load impedances, power levels, etc.

Best regards,
-- Al

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