Is this a good idea?

Well they carry the same amplitude signal from the CD player regardless of volume, so that part doesn't matter. Burning them in like this is fine. Some will say there are burn-in tracks you could be playing that will do a slightly better job, but 99% happens regardless so whatever.

My comment would be, why? If these are any good they will sound good right out of the box. Not as good, not saying that. The best stuff tends to continue improving for quite some time. But the best stuff also sounds really, really good right out of the box. No good cable needs 100 hours to sound good. Let alone a couple hundred. There's even a recent thread by some poor guy who wasted hundreds of hours hoping in vain to hear his crap cable somehow break in and sound good. Never gonna happen. If they don't sound good you send them back. Takes a day or two at most. What am I missing here?

@millercarbon, why? Because I want to and to take any break in or burn in our of the equation so when they are introduced into the system they can be judged without wondering what if. These are three separate offerings from Cardas, all directional so that will be straight forward.