How do you perform a burn in on a tonearm cable?

Just play music.

The difference between a new cable and one that is broken in, is subtle not night and day.

Your mood, emotion, state of mind, health, etc. are far bigger influences from listening session to listening session.

I hook mine up to my CD player and my pre amp and leave my system on 24/7 until the cables have aprox 300 hours on them. That said I ordered my current phono cable from my dealer with instructions to the manufacturer to burn them at the factory. They came with 300 hrs burn in on an industrial strength cable cooker. After that I only ran them on my CD player for 48 hours and they were done.

My Stealth Hyperphono cable is not suggested by the manufacturer to be broken in with a high level signal due to it's design. My cart is .5mv output.

WHat I have done in the past to break in phono stages is is that I made a reverse RIAA signal of white noise (and some music as a test that the levels are correct) I play this in quicktime or another player and set it to loop. I lower the output of the computer to very low, and also the output of the quickime player to very low. Between these 2 volume adjustments I can get the very low signal that mimics the output of a cart. I use the music track to make sure I am not overloading the phono stage.

I should probably try this combined with Alberts suggestion about making the din to RCA cable then I could set a slightly hotter signal that the cart would be outputting - maybe double .

If anyone needs the inverse RIAA files I have them in both mp3 and aif formats. email me.

Bake at 450 for 35-45 minutes should do the trick.

Send it to me and I will burn it in on my Audioharma CC.