digital and interconnect cables burn in

The signal must be going thru ea.cable to a unit that is powered up.For a dig.source that means the player,and the dac,or dig. preamp. For interconnect: that would be the pre, and the amp.no volume is required,but the amp must be powered up,as well as the pre with signal passing (cd on repeat).Speaker wire break in follows this same principal,you can have the volume turned down. The only time you have to have volume is to break in speakers.

Call me ignorant if it applies, and it certainly might, but why would speaker cables break in properly with little or no signal or current running through them? Wouldn't they benefit from higher volumes same as power cords do from draw? I'm certainly no expert on the subject, so am reluctant to comment on ICs or digital cables, but isn't that what a Mobie does?

Radiomanjh: I just researched this type of break in process and was told by my interconnect manufacturer that the power amplifer is not needed for for break in to occur. You can run them from any source (even a VCR) into a preamp and this will allow the signal to complete its course. The preamp selector does not even have to be placed on the "break in" source and you can listen to another source, if you have two sources, during the break in process. It works, I ran a pair of silver interconnects in for over 200 hours without having to listen to them. Though if you are curious like myself you will take a peak/listen at them every now and then. I ran them on a cable music station for part of the time (from the VCR) and finished off running from them from our second "mini" system into our main systems preamp. Good luck.