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Beware of the cable claiming long burn in period.

Almost all the audio equipment including speaker need burn in time.

But I had bad experience with one digital cable recently.

Some people blew the horn on it and claimed burn in time more than 100 hours.

Out of box it had lot of details but etched.

After 8 weeks (around 200 hours) it got little bit better but its overall performance is not better than other digital cable that I have had.

Now it is too late to return it.

Beware of any cable claiming more than 50 hours of burn in time.

The chance is high that you will waste your time and money.
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inna
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I think, generally speaking, 300 hours of burn-in is the starting point to begin evaluating cables. Most improve further after that, including power cords. Patience is audiophile's virtue. I pay zero attention to how they sound until about 250 hours.
inna
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Often enough the better the cables and power cords the longer burn-in time is needed for them to reach their full potential.
Some people just get it very wrong or are simply BSing around for the lack of anything better to do.
inna
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Purist Audio fluid cables begin opening up after about 200 hours, became acceptable near 300 hours and keep improving slightly after that I am not sure for how long, I don't have a high resolution system. After 300 hours or so wall current fluctuations affect sound more than new cables in my set up so I stop listening to them.
On the other hand, Tchernov Reference sounds quite good after maybe 50 hours but the end result is the same - 300 hours is a cut-off point.
inna
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Well, cable for life might work if the life is short. You replace speakers, equipment and then might have to replace cables too. Some, however, are less equipment dependent than others but this doesn’t mean they are best in every case. Unless of course you build your system around your favorite cables which would be a highly unusual and novel approach. You might still end up with great set up, by the way.
inna
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Elizabeth, you are in audiophile mid-age.
Clean your records properly, get the same model speaker cables, upgrade the power cords, and you will get a jump in sound quality.
Then you might consider getting better table/arm/cartridge/phono. Then maybe preamp and amps. A lot of work to do.
inna
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Yes, spend money, a lot of it.
inna
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Mister 2posts sounds like nonsense, he should reverse polarity if he can.
inna
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Yeah, their loss, but not really our gain.
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