Is Stealth Sakra IC is really better than Indra?

Bullot right on!

Yes Sakra needs good break-in and this period is painful as you said but since it is fully loaded with Helium I'd never risk to buy it used. I prefer to have a good deal from the Stealth dealer.
You never know what torments the previous owner passed it on.

IMHO the Sakra's break-in point is above 500hrs...

As for used Indras I totally agree, in such prices are high value for money!!!!

Well the 500 hour thing is good news Kops! I had heard another fellow say that it really comes together around 1000 hours, but if you noticed 500 and above, then I'm close! I can understand your position on the used thing, there are some really good deals right from the dealers these days........I do like to think that anyone who pays this much for cable would take good care of it, but you're right, you never know!

One question I have, and maybe it's a dumb question, nevertheless I'll put it out there for people! When breaking in an interconnect, do you need to have the amps on? If I am breaking in the source ic can I just have my source CD player running without the pre and amps running and having actual music coming out the speakers!! Are you actually getting signal flow if there is no work being done? Throughout this breakin I have had my system playing music at low levels! Thoughts anyone!

Hello Bullot,

You just need the component driving the interconnect to be on, so no, you don't need to have your preamp or the amp on to break-in the interconnect(s) coming out of your source.

Enjoy,
Tom

Hey, thanks Tom.........I'll shut the system down and save some electricity!! I am considering putting the Sakra on a cable cooker........anyone try that with Stealth?

Used Darma cable cooker on STELTH DREAM V10.At 250 hrs cable is really opening up it is already better than Dream which i had in system first.