Best interconnect burn-in method

You’re both waaay off. You need to study mind matter interaction and evolution, especially evolution as it pertains to survival skills and sensory perception. Everything else, all the typical things audiophiles take for granted, are not even close. But gee, where does one go to find out how the immediate surroundings affect hearing and about evolution of the senses and survival? The biggest thing in audio and you can’t even find any textbooks about it. 😩

YOU , are dead wrong .
Music is an innate element in humans like sex, found in all cultures and all times , and like sex not subject to evolution .
Things may very but due to culture not evolution .

Hard to write a book on a non-existent topic .

@Schubert. If some of what qualifies as "music," anymore, can serve as a guide, I’d submit that it is subject to de/bi/Omni-directional evolution.

You may suggest that it’s just cultural, but that might lead off a chicken-or-egg baited cliff. Culture can affect evolution--or at least selection.

Anyway, I agree that the most important component is between the ears.  In many instances, I think that is actually what is burning-in when some new gear is added.

As someone born in 1935 I can assure you what passes for music at present does NOT serve as a guide  and actually makes my point 
on culture .
Take a rock concert for instance, it is impossible that  X-thousand people
could all decide to  raise their arm , same arm, at same time , and wave same in unison because of the music . It is a social event not a musical one
and follows that cultural norm . Reminds me of a Nazi rally(no joke) .
Yes on selection but that is not evolution .
 Yes also on new gear as well .
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Things are worse than you think. Much worse. You only think science, acoustics, electronics, neuroscience, whatever, can explain it all and that you can actually control it because you’ve lived with your while life. Besides, it’s subconscious. You can’t do anything about it even if you wanted to. Sorry to be the bearer of bad news.

You can’t control the controllers. - Anonymous

note to self: you know you’re probably in a controversial thread as soon as the word Nazi raises its head.