Do speaker cables need a burn in period?

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.

gan,
A couple questions:
Did science actually stop to where no more discovery can be possible?
Does it specifically state anywhere in the million pounds of textbooks you've read that speaker cables don't burn in and sound better once they do?

Asking for an uneducated friend.

I think that gainainm is asking for hypothesis.

Very inconvenient thing in all these discussions is that any kind of testing to support the view, one way or another, is not allowed. Those who ask for measurements get attacked for asking for such a ridiculous thing as measurements. Those who suggest blind tests get ridiculed for such a flawed thing as blind tests. It is puzzling at times, to say it softly. Only quasi-technical babbling seems to be allowed.