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Question regarding burn-in

I fear that this may be a stupid question, but I'm still a neophyte in the high-end world ...

If I want to burn in an interconnect between my preamp and power amp by playing a source for a number of continuous hours (24? 48? 96?), does the power amp need to be powered up?

Additionally, any suggestions on the burn-in process would be helpful. I've been looking for a reference article, but haven't found anything that provides much detail.

Thanks,

Martin
mjdrabik
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George Cardas thinks there is no need to have everything on. Please go to the following link and click Cable Use on the right hand side for more details.

http://www.cardas.com/faqs/index.html

Personally, I never purposely burn in cables. I just let music take care of it during normal listening.
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marakanetz
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with small signal it's impossible to burn-in.
if you apply some high voltage 300...400V than your interconnect may work as fuse and will eventually burn ...in.
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lak
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The power amp does not need to be on.
The power amp needs to be on when you are burning in speaker cables. IMO.
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nrchy
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LAK is right about this. That's one of the nice thing about breaking-in cables other than speaker cables since you don't need to shut anything off at night,or during other quiet times.
Let the pre-amp fly!!!
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jedinite24
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I have a question about the duration and method of burning in speaker cables. I was on the Zu Audio website and saw their new Mission line of speaker cables. I'm very interested in them. I read that they require 200-400 hours of break/burn-in. My dad gave me an old receiver that I really don't care about along with some cheap speakers awhile ago. I was going to connect the receiver to the speakers with the Mission speaker cables and let the receiver play music from misc radio stations 24/7 for 10-17 days straight at a low volume so I don't disturb my family. This way I'll know the Mission speaker cables are broken in when I fully audition them and I can make a timely decision on them and if necessary return them within their 60 day time frame.

Would this properly break-in the speaker cables? Does the volume need to be turned up to a certain level to ensure the speaker wire is getting enough current passed through it so that it is being broken in? I'm hoping I can leave it at a low volume. I read some where some time ago certain cable manufacturer breaks-in cables via their burn in devices they do 8 hours on and then 8 hours off for a couple of days. I was wondering if I should do the same.

Thanks in advance everyone.
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