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Any scientific data on cable burn-in?

Someone asked me today if I knew of any scientific papers or evidence regarding cable burn-in. I am not trying to begin a flame type objectivist vs.subjectivist debate here. I have experienced improvement in sound quality on every cable I own after break-in. I just want to answer this fellows question if I can.

bmpnyc
banksfriend
132 posts
 
There is an interesting article on cable break in on lat international,s website.
ezmeralda11
303 posts
 
One, true scientific observation of cable break-in is if you pass too much electrcity through a piece of metal/wire it will burn-up/disintegrate/melt. Put 500v through some bubble gum wrapper....poof.
rcrump
427 posts
 
Read Rolf Hummell, The Electrical Properties of Materials as he touches on break-in....Some manufacturers do break in signal wires fully (30 days 24/7) before delivery....Once broken-in fully the wires do not revert BTW.......

Bob Crump
TG Audio/CTC Builders/DDR Mfg
clueless
763 posts
 
One point in Justacoder's article that i was not aware of is that the "experts" agree that it is the dialectric and not the conductor that is broken in. The dielectric of choice?---Teflon. I have always liked teflon capacitors and also wire but for other reasons (or so I thought.)

Marakenetz's diode argument comes from Ben Duncan, no? I could never really but that one. He argues this is the reason not to use stranded cable. Copper-oxide forms between the strands and encourages non-linear conduction (little mV diodes.)

It just gets curiouser and more curiouser all the time.

I remain,
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