Do speaker cables need a burn in period?

There is no way that speaker cables need a burn in. Anyone who says that they do is out of their mind. All that a conductor does is allow a current path from point A to point B. The distance between the negative and positive conductors and the gauge of the cable does make a huge difference. The type of materials as in the conductor, how they are wound and insulator make a difference. As frequencies go through the speaker cable you have natural capacitive and Inductive reactance occurring as frequencies rise and fall from as they travel through the cable. The most noticeable difference in higher powered systems would be a current capability of the speaker wire. The higher the frequency rises the more frequency radiation off the speaker cable will happen. A properly wound / spaced cable may sound slightly brighter because it will pass higher frequencies better. Since there are no active components in a Speaker Cable there is nothing to burn in. It is simply an electrical conductor. Most people could not tell the sound difference from 10 Gauge speaker cable from Home Depot from a cable costing thousands from some esoteric speaker cable manufacturer.  You would be best to concentrate your efforts on the active components of the system. Speakers, Pre-amp, Power Amp or receiver.  Don't take anyone's word for it. Many people are out to make a fast buck. Go listen and decide if you can tell a difference and if the cost is worth the price mark up.

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Cables are definitely worth the asking coins.  Cables are like car tires.  A car needs a good set of tires for optimal performance.

@andy2,

Cables are definitely worth the asking coins.

Really? Is that an across the board statement? Are ethernet cables costing $10,000 (Audioquest) "worth the asking coins?" If so, why?

Is the Siltech Emperor Crown cables at $40,000 "worth the coin?"
Or any of the others in a similar stratosphere?

I’m just wondering what metric you are using when deciding "cables are definitely worth the asking coins" and if you use any discretion in judging this, and what that would be?

BTW, some people like to respond to such questions by saying things like "a piece of audio gear is ’worth’ whatever someone will pay for it."

But the market value of something is a different question from the one being asked, which is more along the lines of "How much do you have to pay to reach a certain level of PERFORMANCE and why?’

Cables are like car tires. A car needs a good set of tires for optimal performance.

Sure. But at a certain point, the practical limits of tire design are reached, not to mention diminishing returns before that.

You can buy cables from very knowledgeable, experienced manufacturers that are vastly less expensive than the prices often charged by high end cable manufacturers. So the question is: on what grounds do you NEED to spend that extra money for the expensive high end cables?

Even if you’ve spent many thousands on expensive speakers and amplifiers, why wouldn’t cables (selected with suitable specs for the system) from a very experienced cable company like Belden, far cheaper than the audiophile brands,  be good enough?