Do speaker cables need a burn in period?

Wolf and azbrd, don't take it as a slight - none of us are getting any younger, but we still know what we want to hear (and I'll still help you smuggle in your subwoofer).  All I was trying to say there is that we're talking about (in some cases) double digit hearing loss over time.  I've been to many, many concerts, and replayed many more a thousand times in my HT at high volume.  The fact that I can hear at all makes me think I should donate my ears to science.  The "perceived" difference between directional-burned-in cables and those virgin, haphazardly laid and environmentally coddled cables cannot be in the 1% range, or they'd stand out in measurement like a sore thumb.  Any less, and that's a lot to expect of the Mark 1 Mod 0 eardrum.  

Aluminum connectors? O-K, never heard of em but there’s a first time for everything, I guess.

it's copper, physics of copper doesn't change with the small current that runs through cables. It's your ears, your brain, that gets tailored to the sound...Pure BS! And a 3-foot piece of copper or silver isn't going to provide better current to your equipment either...That is just ridiculous to think one foot of anything at the end of a 100 foot run of romax is going to improve your electic supply somehow...but spend away..

There must be a dustbin of disproven, conventional wisdom that's not been dumped as of late. 

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it's copper, physics of copper doesn't change with the small current that runs through cables. It's your ears, your brain, that gets tailored to the sound...Pure BS! And a 3-foot piece of copper or silver isn't going to provide better current to your equipment either...That is just ridiculous to think one foot of anything at the end of a 100 foot run of romax is going to improve your electic supply somehow...but spend away..

>>>>If you get that upset over a 3-foot copper cable one wonders what would happen if someone pointed out the tiny 1/2” fuse where the current comes into the amp affects the sound quality. One imagines your head would explode.