Break-In is Brutal


Breaking in a power and speaker cable changeup.  Speaker cables have new silver plated connectors (Audioquest 1000s) and I'm using banana sections of binding posts that have never been used before.  Brutal.
tomask6
And yet there are those that claim there is no break in of cables and even other electronics integrated into your system to which I say, that is not what my ears tell me.
I've found some components/cables/tubes need some time to break in and some others don't seem to go through any changes at all.Sometimes it is brutal for sure!
Purchased midrange Morrow interconnects, speaker and sub cables over about a 6 month period and breaking them in has been ongoing for a while. Got the interconnects for DAC, preamp and amp first- much improved after 200 hours, awesome after 300.The speaker and subwoofer cables have seemed to settle in a bit quicker.. Morrow’s up front about break in and they were certainly correct. I realized break in is a thing when I started using some tube gear some years ago.