Raquel: i have used silver cabling that NEVER "broke in" i.e. it always sounded thin, bright, glaring, etc... resulting in a lack of listening enjoyment, loss of PRAT and a giant increase in listening fatigue. I thought like you did at first i.e. that it needed more break in time. I've placed cables like this on my burner and then listened to them at various intervals of burning. They still sounded like hell. Some of these were after THOUSANDS of hours on a cable burner, which stresses an interconnect far harder than any amount of actual use in a system will ever do. I did some cabling for SIX MONTHS on a burner, but it was still the same. The only reason that i let this cable go this long as i had read soooooo many "rave reviews" about it that i couldn't believe how bad it sounded. I talked to a few other guys on the net, whose listening skills and opinions i trust, and they had shared identical experiences with this cabling. As such, i knew i was not alone in my thoughts / experiences with this cabling and sold it. Luckily, primarily due to all of those "rave reviews", i had no problem getting my money back out of it.
Then again, i've also used silver that i never new was silver. It simply sounded marvelously transparent and full bodied, making me think it was simply a most excellent copper cable. I didn't know it was silver until i pulled it apart to see what made it "tick" and why it was such a good sounding cable. Needless to say, i was quite shocked to find silver conductors, not copper cabling inside.
Obviously, not all silver is created equally. Sean
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