Do speaker cables need a burn in period?

Related question:  If cables were well used/broken in (2000+ hours) and then put away and not used for 10 years or more, will their sound change over time when reintroduced into the system?  TIA for any thoughts/comments.

Planes fly above our heads? Are you kidding me? Great, now I have to recalibrate all my expectations. 💩

Only 🐈💩 claims to know. 

I just ordered some new bi-wire jumpers; do these take as long to break-in as the main cables ? (they are same cable as mains)

Oh, the arcanae of 🐈💩. 😷

🐈💩=🐍💩. 😷😹🤧😒💸

Burn in is as real as the planes that fly above out heads. Just have an open mind.

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The legacy of inhaling too many aviation fuel fumes. 👨🏻‍✈️ 🧠🍳

This thread is burned out. 

Ha, ha!  🐈💩=🐍💩

No need to guess or try to snow us with super scientific lingo. We already know how burn in works. It’s not that complicated. It’s been explained a bunch of times. Shut the cave door and back to pigmy country!

I am the Paraclete of Caborca. 

X Files "The Truth is Out There" It seems like I'm one of the few out of many who wont speak up and state what they believe in with wire burn in/neutrino electromagnetic alignment. Thats my term until science better understands the phenomena.

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Reliable jibber jabber from glubson and busboy 🚌

Snickering ^

After reading from all here who find that cables need “burned-in” I am sure glad I purchased a Cable Cooker years ago
I just condition them for 3-5 days (depending on the cable) play them in my system for about a day and then I don’t have to worry about it because the sound doesn’t really change - you get what you get

To paraphrase the op’s question, does Kitty Kat need to be burned in to frame a rational hypothesis?  🤔. 🐈💩=🐍💩👀

geoffkait,

"And while you’re at it see if they can get to the bottom of fuse directionality, why cryogenics improves the sound, and why premium fuses improve the sound."

Those answers are all over the place. Once you are ready for them, I will tell you what they are.

"And he does it so well. But he’s a two trick pony."

You are half-right. I really do it so well. The rest is not call "tricks". It is called "art of wisdom". Or "wisdom of art", if you prefer it that way.

nonoise: when I was a kid my stepdad used to drag race at New England Dragway (Ford GT500), as it was called then and I got to hang in the pits. Very educational. I do recall one event where some pro stock car had magnesium wheels (real mag wheels, he he!) and the beads diameter on those rear tires must have been too large or something because on take off, the rims spun in the tires and ignited the wheels and they burned baby! What colors, what smell! Truly Hot Wheels! The mad scramble to put that out was a calamitous riot. Needless to say that guy lost that heat and his nice car looked like ----.

And twoleftears: Higgs boson does exist, at least there's evidence for it, but it's hard to pin these subatomic particles down as to location in time and space, which brings us back to Schrödinger's cat, which we'll never know if it's alive or dead, which bring us to back to maritime...say something maritime's kitty...

Did I do that? My subtle irony must have gotten lost. 🎃

I intentionally never respond to Geoff Kait directly but somehow he manages to get back at me.  The guy got some free time.

Esse est percipe. Meeeeow!

Good comeback! 

🐈💩=🐍💩

That is no bluebird on your shoulder, Kitty. 😱

bon appetit, Flyboy!

Uncle Remus just puked. 🐈💩

Gee, what makes you say that? It’s the old Br’er Rabbit and Tar Baby routine. And he does it so well. But he’s a two trick pony. That and his always delightful, What about this, what about that? routine.

After all this time most people don’t know how the internet works.

I am not sure glubson is interested in the truth.

Maybe glubson should call NASA or AES or MIT and see if they’d be interested in getting involved in researching cable burn in. In fact I nominate glubson to be the official cable burn in coordinator. Be sure and report back when you have the answer. 👨‍🚀 And while you’re at it see if they can get to the bottom of fuse directionality, why cryogenics improves the sound, and why premium fuses improve the sound. We’re all dying to know.

Whatever way you can lead the new naming is fine, as long as it is a logical one.

It is, kind of, funny to read about "things that haven't been discovered yet". For now, they are just a fantasy. Once they get discovered, they become a "thing". I do not doubt that someone may, one day, explain many things we are arguing about here. Including "burn-in" of the speaker cables. The tricky truth for half of the participants is that someone may disprove it, too. For now, it is "it will be discovered" as an indisputable truth. Many things in science have been finally discovered, but many have been discovered to be hoaxes, so to say. I hope to live to see the unraveling of the "burn-in" enigma.

blueranger,

"It could be better called by some scientific name years from now."

No need to wait for years. You already gave one suggestion.

Sometimes, it is better to call things the way they are and not what seems mysterious. Many things on these threads are just like "burn-in". Even if it exists, it is wrong. Nothing is burning, especially not anyone's ears. If someone would constantly call you a greenranger, you would, at some point, say "what is wrong with you".

Burn in is just a name that people describe what they hear in wires changing in sound. It could be better called by some scientific name years from now. How about neutrino electrical alignment. Don't pick on me for choosing that word. Its just an example off the top of my head. Science will give it a better word in tbe future.

nonoise,

No, I did not, but I will take that as a "yes" from you. You reminded me that I did see magnesium flash (old type camera stuff), though, so it would have to be a "yes" from me, too. It was probably a real burn right there, as short as it was. I guess, we need more magnesium speaker cables.

Ever see an old magnesium rim burn when the brakes got so hot it ignited the rim?

blueranger,

Maybe people thought your question was rhetorical and not true question asking for an answer. You gave the answer in the first part of your sentence and did not end it with "?" which is the usual sign to let others know it is a question.

Speaking of dodging questions, have you ever seen a metal burn?

Dodging the question. Tubes change in sound while burning in? No?  Yes they do and like wire it burns in too.

"I believe in Burn in..…...Wire or metal is the same."

Come to think of it, how many of us have seen a metal burning (in, out, in the middle, wherever)?

I think that may point towards the answer.

If your cable does burn, you need to switch to some fuse thread for suggestions.

The compass points at Kitty. 🐈💩

He is a habitual offender, and can expect to get as good as he gets. 

How is that for a bearing to the station, for a non-precision approach. 🐍💩🙀

Lets follow a moral compass and  try to respect your fellow audiogoners. Let's get back to the OP. I believe in Burn in. Tubes certainly burn in don't they. I have experienced that for sure. Wire or metal is the same.

Yes, a farting demon as it were, thus the analogy. 

ma prima avea ciascun la lingua stretta coi denti, verso lor duca, per cenno; ed elli avea del cul fatto trombetta.

Translation: I come from the land of bs.

All the 🐈 mewling sound and fury reminds me of another venue. 

Leave it to Dante.

ma prima avea ciascun la lingua stretta coi denti, verso lor duca, per cenno; ed elli avea del cul fatto trombetta.   (Inf. 21.137-39)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Satan_Is_Real

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