Cables "Burn In"

Unless you put them on some type of "burner" for more than a few days, they will never fully "burn in". Nor will you ever know their full potential. I base these statements on past experience with cables that i have used under normal circumstances on a daily basis month after month. Taking them out of the system and putting them on my Mobie made a VERY noticeable difference i.e. a major improvement. That tells me that cables never really "blossom" during normal usage and need to be exposed to circumstances above and beyond what they would normally see to fully "settle in". Sean
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Do the cables settle in, or do we settle in to the cable?

If a cables will never fully settle-in from normal use, then if we just buy a cable that we like in this partially burned-in state, we can forget about trying to burn it in more, and just enjoy the music.

How can we be sure a cable won't get worse after we burn it in using burn-in device? Where is it written they will always sound better?

Since a cable will lose some of its "burn-in" from non-use, then why bother? We really would have to put our cables back in the burner each time we stop using the system, or we have to leave a CD playing 24/7/365.

In the end it seems like a lot of trouble for nothing; and I am a big believer that cables matter.

Sugar, the main benefits that i've experienced from "burning" cables is that they tend to sound far more natural, offer increased liquidity and sound less "hi-fi". Rough edges are removed and all that you are left with is the music in an even more appealing presentation. Since better musical reproduction is what i am after ( even though i am definitely a "gear head" and like to tinker ), i find it a win / win situation in every aspect.

As to the "burn in" wearing off, i don't know about that. I don't think that this takes place unless something occurs to physically or chemically alter the cables. I guess that i could take some cables that i know are well burned, use them for an extended amount of time and then try re-burning them again. I think that Bob Crump has found that cables are "once burned, always burned" to a great extent. Obviously, this would be a matter of subjective judgment.

I personally don't believe that the initial differences between "burned" and "unburned" is subjective at all, as the differences can be rather staggering and hard NOT to notice. Sean
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