cable break in

Folks the bottom line is (no brainer, realy) listening to cables is certainly different from listening to music. Another words is all that phenomena can only occur when you redirect your attention from tunes to wires.

How do you listen to wires?

Marakanetz was speaking for himself of, course, when he said "no brainer". That is quite accurate.

Maybe he meant no brain here.
:-)

NSGARCH, are you sure that the current in speaker cables is lower than PCs?
If one is feeding 16 watts to a 4 ohm speaker, you have 2 amps of current. The power amp feeding the speaker, even at 75% efficiency is using about 21 watts, therefore barely 0.2 amps are running through the PC.
I doubt that you use power amps at full power to break in the PC and even then a 120 watt amp would have only 1 amp (2 amps if both channels running) as current, certainly less than a speaker cable running at only 16 watts.

I think that the statement about PC breaking-in more quickly than speaker cables due to higher current, needs to be re-examined.
Salut, Bob P.