Interconnect Break In?

GHD, that’s great advice. Thankyou. I should’ve just put these on a spare NAD receiver I have and let it run. I was too impatient and put it right into my system. I may move it but that involves moving a cabinet.

JEA- Its a CJ tube preamp. Any idea of whether that is still ’on’ in standby?

Logistics - I have had the same problem. Especially when I switch from plain to peanut M&M’s 200 hours later. 

@ddrave44 the preamp does not need to be on for the cables between cdp and pre to break in because the signal is flowing from your cd player or streamer and passes thru the output interconnects whether your preamp is powered on or not. This is the easiest set of cables to break in. 
 

@ghdprentice a note on your approach.
The preamp to amp signal, unless you’re cranking it up, is much lower voltage than source to pre which is typically 2v rca and around 4v xlr. Running preamp at low volume to break in the ICs between pre and amp will take slightly longer than the set between source (i.e. DAC) and pre where you’re driving a line level signal to the output. 

Why not "break in" while listening?

audphile1,

I disagree. If the Preamp is not on, the signal is not moving from CD/streamer through the cable into the Preamp.

You might as well just disconnect the cable and let the air break it in. LOL!

ozzy