cable break in

Maybe he meant no brain here.
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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.

Stan,
Why is it that you cannot have a civil conversation with anyone? In every thread, you seem to want to forgo the discussion, and head straight for the insults.
Obviously, you have a lot of experience in this hobby. You could certainly opt to share it with this community in a respectful manner. Please consider adopting such a tone. Thank you.

Boa2 Take care of your own house if the wife allows it.
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Bob, let's say you've got a SS amp which draws 225W at idle but draws 1200W at rated output (200W/400W into 8/4 ohms). So at let's say a nominal (audio) output of 100W/200W into 8/4 ohms, it's drawing around 600W from the wall. W/V=A, or 600/120=5amps.

Typical amplifier nominal output voltage is around 50V for a 20dB voltage gain (over the preamplifier output) and which is a pretty loud listening level if the speakers are reasonably efficient. Again using W/V=A, you get 2A (@100W) for an 8ohm speaker and 4A (@200W) for a 4 ohm speaker, unless I'm way off somewhere.

An example would be my Levinson amp which will provide 400W/ch into my 4 ohm (nominal) electrostats, but at the loudest listening levels I can stand, it's only drawing 400W from the wall (or 3.3A) and it's only putting out around 150W rms of audio power, which at its 67V (26dB) gain, is only around 2.2A to the speakers (vs. 3.3A from the wall.)

The example you gave assumes an 8V output voltage which would be only about a 3dB voltage gain for the amp. Not very loud, even with a super-efficient speaker.