Cable Settling???

It is interesting that you have brought the entire planet into this discussion. Just the other day it was annouced that the folks at NASA have discovered a super massive black hole with a diameter seven times the distance of pluto's orbit from the sun. And this thing just roams around the galaxy gobbling up stuff. After learning that, everything seems just a little more silly. I hope these golden ears people will hear it coming if it heads this way. At that time I will order the Pass Labs and Wilsons.

At that time you should order Scotch. I would anyway.

Just to keep the discussion going.
I would like to hear opinions are how all of the gear that happens to need a "break-in" knows when to stop at just the right time when the music sounds best. Are these components trained in what each of us is looking for when it comes to great sound?

We know we all have varying tastes when it comes to music and equipment. Yet we say that it sounds best to us after "break-in". If I happen to buy your equipment second hand, how does the equipment know to "break-in" to my preferences and not break back into your old tastes which lets assume are contrary to mine?

A very talented engineer and designer stated that a cable or piece of equipment that changed dramatically after it was put into service would either change very little or would have to be so unstable that it would continue to change forever, continuously. In other words the piece in question cannot magically stop changing at just the precise time that the sound becomes "Great", "WoW", "Stunning", "Airy", "Sublime", etc.

I have often wondered how all this equipment gets programmed to morph into what it is that we desire from it.

Who feels that "we create are own reality"? Have we convinced ourselves like a great magician convinces us that the Space Shuttle disappeared or the Tiger manifested itself inside the previously empty box?

Tom6897:
Excellent questions. Get in line. Hopefully the oracles will speak soon.