For Your Edification and Enjoyment re "Burn In", etc.

Caps and tubes are covered in component assessment between the two articles. Evidently you did not read the first article.  I have a digital source, so someone else, maybe you, can test cartridges.  Have fun with that one.. Speakers I have not compared yet, but have considered.  

The topic is clearly the tweaks and methods discussed in the articles. I'm not interested in off topic discussion here. 

@douglas_schroeder 

I suggest you review the absoluteness of your statements on burn in on this thread alone; maybe my comment will look a little less off topic, then. 

After reading everything I could find on your writing, Douglas, I’ve come to conclusion that you would make a good Grief Counselor. The "poor me" don’t work Kiddo, please read on...

I’m going to quote YOU and how you evaluate a system in comparison.

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"I seem to occupy a position in the industry and community that is fairly vacant, that of eschewing most forms of system enhancements/methods called "tweaks", and endorsing other methods that some ridicule. It all comes out of building hundreds of systems, not theory".

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Here is the thing Douglas, "hundreds of systems", I have a BIG problem with what you imply. It takes me a couple of days to set up and at least a week for things to settle. To hit 100 hours, on 100 systems, I’ll let you do the math, let alone (S) HUNDREDS, and 2-400 hours for "Break in" to complete.

By your own admission you either didn’t spend much time with the systems you built, OR you spent the last 12-14 year at and 8 + hour a day job just listening. That’s a 2080 hour 40 x 52 year.

I’ll leave your testing procedure alone now, but it’s really BROKE, and your psiphon is just, atrocious. That’s county talk from a Common Man.

Douglas, the numbers just don’t jive buddy.. What’s up? Where do you find time to make a living, listen, evaluate and write your reviews?

Coffee LOL those hours approach pure meth numbers and immortality.
Just sayin’

Just wonderin’..

It took me 10 years to find out about ONE pair of 10 foot cables, your and extraordinary fella indeed..

From the age of 6 - 15 I was taught HOW to listen by a Master Jet Mechanic.. 9 years of being TAUGHT, then I got to listen.... for 50 more...

Skunk at the hen house gotta go...

@douglas_schroeder interesting article (with due respect to other, somewhat critical, responders above). Going slightly against the grain, I have experienced change in the sound of cables on one -- unique -- instance: when a cable is newly produced, i.e. has not been put under load after having been put together (soldered): I have found empirically that it takes about 10-15mins for the frequency response to extend on both extremes.
Of course this is anecdotal, but I thought the experience might add to the communal fun! Regards