Whats on your turntable tonight?


For me its the first or very early LP's of:
Allman Brothers - "Allman Joys" "Idyllwild South"
Santana - "Santana" 200 g reissue
Emerson Lake and Palmer - "Emerson Lake and Palmer"
and,
Beethoven - "Piano Concerto No. 4 in G Major" Rudolph Serkin/Ozawa/BSO
slipknot1
Our friend and fellow member @boxer12 asked me to listen to some interconnects he has developed. As you all may remember I had just purchased some ICs earlier this year. These were meant to be a great value/low cost purchase for me as I didn’t want to go down that rabbit hole. I was content and willing to stay content. This offer to me was a blessing in that I could evaluate some ICs that seemingly have a lot of interesting construction techniques and materials.

I was sent two different 1M ICs. The one I’m listening to now was stated to need break-in.of at least 50 hours. As of now I have over 30 hours on them. I may write a review later under Member Reviews if Tim OKs it.

On the first day, I could hear changes, seemingly a golden glow, for lack of a better term. Day 2, the soundstage really started opening up. Every aspect was positive. Width, depth, pinpoint focus, dimensionality and just overall, more open. Bells have a shimmer and golden sheen, I guess this is greater tonality at it’s finest. Female vocals are more breathy.

The third day, I was kind of still in awe and very, very happy. So this is where I’m at now. If things improve more, I’ll be ecstatic.
@slaw  Similarly, I have found that my interconnect and speaker cables definitely had a change (for the better) at about 30 hours of run-in time.  I never thought of the change to be a "golden glow", as you put it.  But all other aspects you described are exactly what I found to be, beginning at around 30 hours.  
The bottom line is that yes, indeed, these current day cables of more exotic materials and construction do have a run-in time.  And they do settle in and sound much better.  Years ago I would never had thought that to be the case.  But listening is believing. And now I do believe!
It sure is fun, too.