Do speaker cables need a burn in period?

stevesham
Ah, again, the process of belief trumps all, always, every time and then some.

Keep believing the nonsense and you will hear whatever you want to hear.

But, it’s not science. Never was and never will be.

>>>It certainly appears you’ve psyched yourself out, sir. You are deluded that you have some sort of mind over matter ability. Take two placebos and see me in the morning. I’ll be the judge of what’s science, if you don’t mind. I don’t know what a lot of people use the expression our understanding of science, as if we all have the same knowledge. Besides even knowledgeable scientists can disagree. You don’t think they’re all cookie cutouts, do you?

you make an interesting point. I read a piece by Harry Pearson (RIP) in the Absolute Sound decades ago where he basically said that there are unexplainable truths/realities in Audio reproduction due to the limitations of our scientific knowledge. He asked the question about whether we, audiophile hobbyists, felt that science had/has ALL the answers at this point. He obviously felt it didn't. While, to this day, I'm still undecided I'll admit that he's still got me wondering!;)

I actually believe differences from our listening experience can be measured, but our hearing is very complicated and it's hard to devise a measurement technique.  

In the case of cable burn in, it can be measured, but you need very sophisticated equipment which can cost a lot of money and it's not like it's a survival matter so people don't trouble doing it.  If they can hear the difference and it can be explained by basic physics then it's good enough for them.  

Even if you have the equipment, you need to have extensive knowledge in physics and electrical engineering so it's not like push a button kind of thing.  I once saw a website that measure jitter on a bunch of DAC and concluded that cables don't matter.  I mean it's like comparing difference cars using 0-60 number.  Our hearing is much more sophisticated that can be measured by some basic parameters.

Give me a break. Harry Pearson didn’t know anything about science or about was or wasn’t possible. He was an English major. He was a nice guy, though.

Glubson, if you’re trying to convince me you are rather slow witted you’re doing an excellent job. People have asked me those questions many times. Let your fingers do the walking. Never smarten up a chump. Snap out of it! 

Thanks Chazro. Also why is it after I play the Cardas frequency sweep record my vinyl rig sounds better Glupson? It certainly doesn't sound worse. If I want my interconnects to sound worse all I have to do is burn them in the much stronger speaker cable mode which I have accidently done. It took a while but they settled back down. Thats a new phenomena that science hasn't conceptualized a reason for even being. Science is a journey of discovery by thinking outside the box with an open mind. Stephen Hawking anyone?