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cable burn-in / system burn-in

So many of us just take what we hear as being the gospel truth about equipment. I know I do, a lot of the time, because there is just to much work and cost to prove it. I have to finally agree with the burn-in effect. After several years, and multiple equipment changes, I can say, with out a doubt, equipment and cable burn in makes a very large impact on the sound. I just started my system again after being down for a few months. It has taken about 40hrs of play time before it has started to sound good again. I have a cd that I always play to hear the effect, which I am very familiar with. So it is kind of scientific, and not just arbitrary. So there you have it...
johnhelenjake
notec
407 posts
 
Rodman99999 wrote: As long as my system's cables or electronics (new or reinserted) sound like music at the end of the 200hrs of continuous signal that I generally feed them...

Dave_b wrote: A couple of hundred hours for most cables should do it with a short warm up/settling period after each off/on cycle or re-connection of said cables


200 hours of continuous signal, on a cable cooker is 8.3 days. The Audiodharma Cable Cooker recommends 3 - 4.5 days to burn-in cables. Isn't eight days on a cable cooker too long?
sherod
1,690 posts
 
I think he meant 200 hours of continous signal in the system, not the cable cooker.
notec
407 posts
 
Yeah, curious about 200 hours of cable burn-in on a cooker as opposed to 200 hours of settle-in in a system.

Less amperage in a system Vs. a cooker (Audiodharma) I realize - but it was recently suggested to me to go eight days on a cooker for a pair of spkr cbls (Purist Audio biwire).
hoodjem
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Settle-in (or Burn-in):   It is Real!

On Monday of this week I received four new Ice Age Copper-Copper power cables.

I put them in on my Pass monoblocks and Martin Logan CLS electrostats right away.  At first listen, they sounded thin, flat, and somewhat muffled.  I thought no problem.  They are brand new—they just need some time to do what cables do. 

Seven hours later they were sounding bloated, fat, and way too full in the bass.  I went to bed that night wondering did I make a mistake?  Ice Age advertises that these cables have a “full, rich, warm sound.”   Is it too much?

But then yesterday evening after 10 more hours, they opened up and the sound was definitely full and rich, but not too much, not too little.  Very musical!
 

Today, Wednesday, after six more hours, there is plenty of width and depth, a rich mid-range, strong but not bloated bass, sweet treble, and excellent spatial details. 
 

Right now, I am one happy camper!  I can’t believe these are the same cables from Monday.

If they keep getting better, then that would be amazing! 

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