Do Cables Wear Out?


A fellow Hi - Fi friend was explaining particle breakdown in cables after years of use and loud rock use will bring demise sooner. Anyone have knowledge of this?
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Huh, now we can use outdoor speakers to do testing of the audibility of corrosion in copper wires, when a much more accurate visual test is available to detect corrosion. Maybe the difference has more to do with the fact that you have cut off a small piece of copper and then the connection is better and you could have abtained the same result by cutting off the cable when new and not submitted to so-called corrosion.
Salut, Bob P.
Naw, they sound better because after cutting the ends off the cables are shorter and have lower inductance, capacitance and resistance (sorry, couldn't resist).
Thank you, Zaikesman for that information. Im afraid in the begining I may not have stated my question clearly for some of you. My intention was simply to engage discussion on cables wearing out by any means. I believe the discussions to be quite edifying thus far and am pleased to see such intrest in this subject. Thanks, spl.