Do speaker cables need a burn in period?

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.

ganainm
Thing is Geoff, nobody HAS given you a Nobel prize. The "appeal to authority" is not MY authority but say, about a million lbs of EE and Physics texts back to Maxwell and Faraday and hundreds of universities, thousand of recording studios and all those players of Strads who laugh at your directional or burnt in wire. Yeah. Appeal to those authorities.

>>>>Millions and millions? Who are you, Carl Sagan? That’s all just a big Strawman argument. You seem to excel at illogical arguments. Nobody said any EE or Physics texts explain why wires are directional or improve on break-in. Nor do they refute it. As I said no scientific laws have been broken in the process. No need for all the angst.

So, in some ways audiophiles are actually smarter than all those millions of lbs of EE and Physics texts and those millions of EE and Physics PhDs who never heard of wire directionality or break in. Or if they have heard of they smugly dismiss it on grounds that it isn’t in their textbooks from school. Do you believe learning stops as soon as you get your diploma? 👨‍🎓

Let me ask you, you don’t really think science is complete, do you? Do you know everything? From what you say you’re objection seems to be that it “doesn’t sound right” to you. In other words you have no real technical argument in this particular area, correct? I mean other than name dropping. Nobody has given you the Nobel Prize, either.

”Knowledge can be defined as what remains after you subtract out all the things you forgot from school.”