Do speaker cables need a burn in period?

sleepwalker: you may have missed my point. I was referring to directionality. The reciprocation of engine pistons was my analog not for break-in but for electrons; there is no net current flow of electrons in a wire propogating a musical, or alternating current, signal.

For this reason, there can be no wire directionality because the electron field alternates as electromotive power, as push, pull, otherwise, we’d hear nothing. There’s as much force in one direction as the other, hence no net flow.

stevecham, The trouble with that theory is that electrons are not the signal. Electrons are simply the charge carriers. The signal itself is a horse of a different color and travels at near lightspeed in metal conductors. Which of course means the signal must be comprised of photons. So, it’s actually photons that navigate the wire better in one direction than the other. 

Photons huh? Well I’d like to see light pass through a sheet of copper. That would be real special. Lmao. 

Perhaps if you woke up you’d see the light? 

My speaker and amp manufacturers strongly urged me to not open them up and reverse the internal wires