Do speaker cables need a burn in period?

taras22,

Gotta say that is a very odd thing for a fundamentalist to bring up.

That was lame the other times you tried that approach; it doesn't get any better with time.

You couldn't accurately articulate the position I have argued if you tried.  (because if you could, anyone would see that "fundamentalist" pot-shot couldn't stick and you'd look foolish).   

Please don’t pollute audio discussions with pharma blind tests. There is no similarity whatsoever between drug tests and audio tests. In other words, for you philosophy majors out there, and master debaters, it’s a Strawman argument. This is just more philosophical quackery. 🦆 🦆 🦆

nonoise,

Prof, do yourself a favor and check out the specs on a set of Darwin Truth II ICs and a pair of Blue Jean Cables ICs and you'll get it.

Hardly.

I looked at the Darwin website and it seemed to be full of all the dubious justifications as any other high end cable manufacturer.  In the "why you should buy Darwin" page, they say they "painstakingly tested by ear..."

That's hardly a good start, especially when the very process of "testing by ear" is the one being disputed.  That's like a homeopath saying "We painstakingly tested our remedies by ingesting!"   Kind of leaves out the problem of bias.

They go on to make all the dubious claims we see repeated in this forum, but with no other support for the claims than "we just said it" or "we heard it." 

The Darwins are well within spec and yet they sound demonstrably better.

When you know which cable you are using, right?

I still see no plausible argument given for why a lower cost, competently built cable would produce "one note bass" while passing a huge variety of (musical) bass signals.  It's just a claim wafting in the air.  

prof, 
All you need to do is to actually listen to it and you'll climb down from your high horse and finally put it out to pasture.

I looked at the Darwin website and it seemed to be full of all the dubious justifications as any other high end cable manufacturer. In the "why you should buy Darwin" page, they say they "painstakingly tested by ear..."

Although I agree some (especially online) cables makers are a bit of a suspect, but to say there is a massive world wide conspiracy is something altogether.