Interconnect and Speaker Cable Burn In

I will burn them in a my Audioharma cable cooker for $35.00. If you live on the east coast shipping would be cheap. Zip code 32541 Destin FL.

"Any suggestions would be much appreciated - keep in mind that I am somewhat technically challenged."

Careful with that assertion at any audio dealer.

FWIW, usually you would want some "load" present at the other end of the cable under test...

if you want to get fanatical about it you can go to partsexpress and buy 8 or 4 ohm 100 watt dummy loads, for the speaker cable load. Then you can blast the cables with musical signals or whatever 24/7 with zero sound (assuming you also did not connect the speakers)...

be careful not to cook your driving amp/load.

Have a blast with the dielectric thing.

keep in mind that I am somewhat technically challenged.

From a technical perspective, cable burn in is totally unnecessary. I have never seen an engineering text book or scientifically peer reviewed paper that claims that burn in is required for an audio cable.

From a subjective perspective....there are all kinds of anecdotal evidence about burn in. Just when and why burn in stops after a few days, months or up to a year is still unclear.

If burn-in is real then the type of music, voltage and current levels used to burn in ought to be extremely important...

Just use them.
They will break in on their own.

Since these threads go off course, the important question to be answered, Yes you absolutley need a Load at the other end of speaker cables or interconnects, if in fact "burn in " whether you believe in it or not is to work… The signal from the positive cable seeking the negative cable to flow back to ground, otherwise there is no signal traveling thru because the circuit is not complete. People don't realize the center pin of an interconnect is the only one providing the signal in the first place, and the ground ring is getting it back to activate the circuit allowing signal flow in the first place otherwise power is not going anywhere, and the cable is doing nothing until that positive tap sees the ground tap.

Speakers are doing the same thing, the positive signal flows into the speaker, goes thru the crossover, and drivers and exits thru the negative speaker tap applying the signal to your negative speaker cable or ground and the ground cable is actually flowing the opposite direction… So think about it and obviously the positive sitting on the floor next to the negative cable would obviously not transmit the signal from one to the other unless you have a magic carpet :-) Kinda interesting since speaker cables and interconnects are sometimes marked directional, but this direction is pointing to show you the signal carrying cable into the load (positive + Red whatever), cause the arrow for your negative or ground signal would be going the opposite direction. So your cable is a Series connection and to get power it must flow in and out of a load. So whether this process is necessary, well fact is cables are electrical carrying and in opposing direction components of your system, can't hurt to try and "Cook" them. But I will not debate whether it works for the better or not.

So regardless if it is a viable action or not, YOU MUST have a load to make it do anything!