Do speaker cables need a burn in period?


I have heard some say that speaker cables do need a 'burn in', and some say that its totally BS.
What say you?


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@geoffkait 

If you mean the pseudoscience statement you posted earlier?  its NOT proof in any way, its a statement with NO actual test data to back it up.  If you ask me your quote below is proof you do not understand how AC current works!  If you said this in any electrical engineering class your classmates would laugh you out of the room!

>>>>Didn’t you get the memo? Maybe you were sleeping. You don’t need to be concerned with any signal travel in the “opposite direction,” only any signal travel toward your speakers, I.e., the correct direction. Follow?



Let me get this straight. When you say electrical engineering class do you mean the one you never went to?
We have gone from burn-in to directionality.  I think the next pseudoscience ... err ... I mean cable topic to get a bunch of people worked up is does it make any difference if you let your speaker cables lying on the ground vs. having it lift off the ground?
The reason behind this is that speaker cables are basically a transmission line.  And all transmission lines are affected by the surrounding dielectric materials.  By running the cables on the ground or your living room carpet, the ground in this case act as a dielectric material but in a non-symmetric way because the bottom half of your cables are in contact to the ground, while the upper half while the upper half is in contact with the air. So
the signal may get distorted.

By lifting the cable off the ground, the dielectric is now symmetric
as intended so the signal will not be distorted.

I can't promise this won't get people worked up.