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Beware of the cable claiming long burn in period.

Almost all the audio equipment including speaker need burn in time.

But I had bad experience with one digital cable recently.

Some people blew the horn on it and claimed burn in time more than 100 hours.

Out of box it had lot of details but etched.

After 8 weeks (around 200 hours) it got little bit better but its overall performance is not better than other digital cable that I have had.

Now it is too late to return it.

Beware of any cable claiming more than 50 hours of burn in time.

The chance is high that you will waste your time and money.
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geoffkait
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dinasty11 posts02-22-2019 11:58amDigital cables have no burn in.  They either pass the signal as a 1 or 0 or they don’t. They have no burn in, no directionality, no nothing. Do you think they deliver a more powerful 1 or 0 after the burn in???   Asinine discussion

>>>>The signal transferred on digital cables isn’t 1s and 0s. Also, the signal is an electromagnetic wave just like analog cables, therefore subject to the same causes of noise and distortion as any other type of cable. This is why toslink is usually judged inferior to coax digital cable, counterintuitively. If it was ones and zeros all digital cables would sound the same, which they obviously don’t. Follow?
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I have an expensive (bought it used so not so expensive for me) solid silver coax sp/dif cable from my CD player to my DAC. I think it sounds great and I also think my friends, when I show them that cable, should be more enthusiastic and appreciative of it. But no, they just don't seem to care and also seem to prefer I not yammer about this stuff.
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wolf_garcia4,612 posts

02-22-2019 2:28pm

I have an expensive (bought it used so not so expensive for me) solid silver coax sp/dif cable from my CD player to my DAC

@ wolf_garcia

Does it have arrows, or some type of designation, for direction?
I have yet to run across a solid core center conductor coax digital cable that is not directional. Even manufactured digital S/PDIF cables where the manufacturer says his cable/s is not directional.
Especially a silver center conductor coaxial digital cable.

One direction will sound better than the other be it copper or silver.
Jim


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Burn in has been scientifically disproved over and over again. Yet the "golden ears" crowd buying Nordost etc will be here playing ego games time and time again. This is all nonsense. Stop it.
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It’s been disproved? Prove it! Talk’s cheap.
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