Transport signal thru mult cables simultaneously?

Thanks, helpful. Do you have any thoughts on the relative importance of break-in for digital vs analog cables, based on theory, experience or other reference? I have read in several threads here about people breaking-in their digital cables, and I have wondered about the need for that. I guess if break-in is a real phenomena of changing how a signal interacts with the surrounding dielectric, then any signal could be affected.

kn

KN, no, I really don't have any particular thoughts about the importance of break-in for digital cables. I'll say, though, that I would not consider anecdotal reports of such experiences to be definitive unless they involved direct comparison on the same day of a broken in cable and an identical cable that was not broken in. With the system being in an equal state of warmup in both cases.

And even then I would be uncertain as to how applicable the reported experience would be to other digital cables connecting other digital components.

Regards,
-- Al

A further thought that occurs to me regarding digital cable break-in: Since S/PDIF and AES/EBU cables will be terminated in nominal impedances of 75 ohms and 110 ohms, respectively, while line-level analog interconnects will generally be terminated in tens of thousands of ohms, and the signal amplitudes involved in each of those cases are not greatly dissimilar, in normal use vastly more current will be flowing in a digital cable than in an analog line level interconnect.

Therefore whatever break-in effects may occur in a digital cable, if any, will tend to happen far more quickly in normal use than would be the case with analog interconnects.

Regards,
-- Al

Interesting, as usual Al. Thanks

kn