Cable Burn In


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."
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blueranger
You hit the nail on the head. Ears are like the microphones and our brains are like the tape recorders in the studio. Oh well maybe not a good analogy. Steve Guttenberg in on of his youtube videos predicts that in the future we won’t be listening to music by our ears but the music will be fed directly into our brains for ultimate fidelity!!

>>>>If you don’t think it’s a good analogy why did you say it? Microphones and recorders, well, quite. Ears are like microphones and brains are like transceivers. And the transceivers work on the conscious level and the subconscious level. Much of the noise and distortion you’re perceiving (hearing) is not from the recording or anything in the system. It’s still S/N + D. You can’t tell the difference, whether the N or D is from the system or outside the system. The brain doesn’t differentiate. I’m from Guttenberg’s future.
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@elizabeth & CBI proponents

How do you know it's the cable and not everything else, all of which are measurable?