Do speaker cables need a burn in period?

glubson to self: gee that guy seems like he knows something. I think I’ll ride in on his coattails and scold geoffkait again and brag about my simple experiment (which by the way is discredited by the thousands of other experiments with the opposite result. How unlucky can one person be? Shall we call you gullible glubson? 🤔

So, many explain subjectively that they believe so.   Can anyone offer an explanation as to why this would make any difference?

i am trying to remain open-minded, but cannot see any explanation why this would make any difference.  

If if there is any difference, it seems to me adjusting to the character of the altered sound seems more likely.

again, I just want to hear one fact-based argument for “burning-in” speaker cables.

i see the reason for a car’s brakes - to heat treat the rotors evenly and burnish an set the pads, but I have never seen any explanation for speaker cables.

again, I just want to hear one fact-based argument for “burning-in” speaker cables.

Join the club.

Don't let it keep you from dinner waiting for an answer though ;-)

Sorry geoffkait, millions have not heard that difference. You heard it, I did not. You are wrong, I am right. I have no interest in scolding you.

By the way, I noticed you changed your repetitive statements about portable CD player system from "no speaker cable" to "no long speaker cable". I am glad you considered what I suggested.

koan2,
 
As prof said, do not let it keep you from dinner waiting for an answer.

Forget about objective or measurement. That is not accepted. The inconvenient thing is that you are a nay-sayer or some worthless skeptic if you have doubts it works. Then you try it yourself, and, if the result is not "blacker blacks, a little violin player started dancing in the room" or some other poetry, you are no good and your result is worthless. In short, there is no way you can be right, if you just do not say "burn-in and other activities are Heaven's gift".

By the way, if you have to look/listen too hard for something, it is probably not there. At least not to some meaningful extent.