Do speaker cables need a burn in period?

It’s not semantic but that’s OK. As I said, it’s the wire not the electricity anyway.

"The rats went immediately to the door where the food had been the time before."

"He finally found that they could tell by the way the floor sounded when they ran over it."

There seems to be another variable that has been missed for the last 80 years. The one that made rats know in advance how the floor would sound when they ran over it. That may be what made them run immediately to the right door instead of tapping around searching for the right sound.

"When did arrows start appearing on audio cables?"

When someone needed a new, fancier, product to increase sales.

Well if HiFi tuning said it, it has to be true and once again Mr Kait has yet to provide ANY documentation or data to support his statements, he just says something & insults anyone who challenges what he claims and its magically true!

mitch2 brought up a good point.  I always thought for the last 20 years that my system was good enough until I added in a new component.  My system now is much better than it was 10years ago, but I still got a long way to go.  When does progress stops?  For example, if someone has a $100K system, can it be better?  How many $100K speakers are there to purchase?  Or $100K amp?  

I still think there are a lot of things that can be done at the recording end such as better audio format, better mixing.  How about coming up with  stereo recordings with surround sound format?