Cable Break In for the Naysayers

It's a broad general statement that declares that "i know that there's nothing I don't know".  That's my only point.   It's an over-reach imho.  Im not at all saying that we can't measure countless things with instruments  better than we can ourselves.  I'm a scientist and over my 38 yr career in my field there were numerous developments and insights that were "impossible" or deemed impractical.   Until some became common knowledge to a high schooler.  Einstein didn't like the idea of quantum connectivity calling it a "spooky action over a distance".  We can now observe it, recreate it.  Next, quantum computing.  Just sayin.  Have you watched the YouTube of the Cal Poly guys showing that electricity isn't simply the flow of electrons down a wire but is a primarily a magnetic-induced phenomena?  It's enlightening.  EE isn't my forte but there's always something to be learned.

+1 for Bigtwin re red wine especially. Bottle shock, then meandering evolvement of the palate, aroma, and body. Very real!

same thing with cables. My most sensitive instruments- my ears- tell me so.

I’m still trying to wrap my mind around the benefits of periodic cable cooking, and if I should purchase a cable cooker.

I somehow doubt this thread will be the one to put a rest to the same words and arguments (on both sides!) that has been raging on since I think the 1970's. Funny how the passion has been so fierce through the decades.

What would be productive is if someone were to organize a double blind test, to test such things as differences between power cords, broken-in vs brand new, etc.

This debate could fairly easily be put to rest, I think, with say 5-ish participants from both camps.  And maybe a few neutral judges just to have the bases covered.

If done right, with the right transparency and the right controls in place, the HiFi landscape could be changed forever by such a test.

Come on @jays_audio_lab or some other YouTuber, there is a huge opportunity here to be the one that organized the event that ended these decades-old debates.  I won't mention the other personality on the other side of the fence that could also participate; every time his name gets mentioned threads seem to go sideways!

The argument that some among us have superior uber sensitive hearing and thus can claim to hear large and obvious differences between fuses, cables, dog whistles, big bang vibrations, sunspots and fog...just renders any discussion conveniently moot. Sort of a relief really. I've ridded myself of bad sounding cables here and there but any discussion of cable break-in always seems to reach that point of "oh well, you can't hear it and I can." I once called Morrow Audio (nice cables) about something and Mike actually answered the phone...I couldn't help asking what I thought was a sort of humorous question, "What if I prefer the sound of UN broken in cables?" We both agreed that in that case you just have to buy multiples of each cable and swap then out before they can reach their break-in potential. Expensive but hey, I have extremely sensitive hearing.