Cable burn-in and Quantum Tunneling are two different things much like letting a bottle of wine breath and aging wine are two different things. Recently a long time SR user returned his X Series and X2 cables to the factory for Quantum Tunneling for a fee. These cables had been used in his system for years and had several thousand hours on them; in other words, they were well broken-in. We Quantum Tunneled his cables and shipped them back to him on the same day they arrived. The very next day he called me and was speechless, actually he could not stop talking. Needless to say he was very happy and surprised at the difference Quantum Tunneling had made to his older cables.
Quantum Tunneling significantly increases the resolution and sound staging potential of cables while at the same time smoothing out the high frequencies compared to the same cable not treated. That said, the increase in resolution also makes you more aware of a cables state of break in-a strange dichotomy I suppose. It is this increase in resolution across the entire frequency spectrum and the improved phase transfer characteristics that contributes to the 300 hours of break in many are reporting-you are simply aware of information that previously went unnoticed. I actually find my cables continue to improve all the way to the 700 hour mark however at the 300 hour mark you are nearly all the way there.
Yours in music,
Ted Denney Lead Designer Synergistic Research Inc.
Quantum Tunneling significantly increases the resolution and sound staging potential of cables while at the same time smoothing out the high frequencies compared to the same cable not treated. That said, the increase in resolution also makes you more aware of a cables state of break in-a strange dichotomy I suppose. It is this increase in resolution across the entire frequency spectrum and the improved phase transfer characteristics that contributes to the 300 hours of break in many are reporting-you are simply aware of information that previously went unnoticed. I actually find my cables continue to improve all the way to the 700 hour mark however at the 300 hour mark you are nearly all the way there.
Yours in music,
Ted Denney Lead Designer Synergistic Research Inc.