I'm new here and new to the audiophile world. I recently acquired what seems to be a really high end system that is about 15 years old. Love it. Starting to head down the audiophile rabbit hole I'm afraid.
But, I have to laugh (quietly) at some of what I'm learning and hearing about high fidelity.
The system has really nice cables throughout but I needed another set of RCA cables. I bit the bullet and bought what seems to be a good pair from World's Best Cables. I'm sure they're not the best you can get and don't look as beefy as the Transparent RCA cables that were also with this system. But, no sense bringing a nice system down to save $10 on a set of RCA cables, I guess.
Anyway, in a big white card on the front of the package there was this note: In big red letters "Attention!". Below that "Please Allow 175 hours of Burn-in Time for optimal performance."
I know I'm showing my ignorance but this struck me as funny. I could just see one audiophile showing off his new $15k system to another audiophile and saying "Well, I know it sounds like crap now but its just that my RCA cables aren't burned-in yet. Just come back in 7.29 days and it will sound awesome."
If you are a "measurer" then so be it. You will be happy in your paradigm and that is absolutely fine!
My organic listening mechanism is more important to me than a man-made measuring device.👂👂
The decision? Which listening mechanism do you want to trust to deliver the truth of your system to you?
+1 @hifiman5 .
First of all, going to the people who seem to be making dubious or
controversial claims for products they sell might not be the best place
to get objective information on cables. I don't know about you, but I
try not to derive a true picture of the world form advertisements ;)
OK @prof , point well taken. That's why the consumer should be reading the user reviews of said cables.
Second of all, note in those links to Nordost and Cardas simply bring
you to claims made by those manufactures, wherein they supply no
objective/measured results to support their technical claims of burn in
(or that it is audible even if something does change over time in the
cable).
It is implied by the manufacturer's info that the listener will experience an audible change in sonics after a run-in period. In some cases they are answering queries regarding break-in.
Excellent post prof! And it has been shown that the measuring devices can measure things small enough that the ear of most likely cannot detect. So I find it funny that people Scoff at measuring device list. N80 if you’re interested read up on confirmation bias and expectation bias. This is the reason for all the folks claiming that things sound wildly better when they’ve spent 1000s on a cable.
prof"going to the people who seem to be making dubious or controversial claims for products they sell might not be the best place to get objective information on cables. I don't know about you, but I try not to derive a true picture of the world form advertisements ;)"
I don't know about you but I would be reluctant to accept technical judgements from anonymous forum posters about things they admit they don't even understand especially when the claims, assertions and doubts they promulgate lack any basis in science, engineering or even common sense and from people who dismiss, disregard and reject the data, observations, and conclusions made by those who have actually listened, experimented, and documented they're testing:) <grin> <grin>
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