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Finally, I have a pair of the WE 16awg & 14awg Star Quad Bi-Wire speaker cables burning in on my Cable Cooker. I made these from Western Electric NOS tinned copper wire by twisting 4-14awg wires for the LF and 4-16awg wires for the MF/HF and cross-connecting the pos and neg runs, resulting in two runs of 16awg wire to each MF/HF pole and two runs of 14awg wire to each LF pole. I soldered some Cardas GRS spades to the tinned wire using Cardas quad eutectic solder. Still need to finish them by cleaning flux and adding heat shrink over the connectors.
WE Star Quad Bi-Wire Speaker Cable

What is the so-called “burning-in” of a cable ?

A: Any cable’s conductors consist of many groups of atoms, clustered in crystals or atom clusters. The borders between these crystals or clusters are critical zones where electron movements are hindered when the condition of these boundaries is getting worse. This worsening takes place e.g. when your loudspeaker cable is moved every day and/or chemical activity is around - latter amplified by higher humidity levels, elevated temperatures and air pollution. Also imperfections in the cable insulation can trigger conductivity changes.
Burning-in is the effect that, despite any affected crystal borders, the sound quality improves again thanks to electron movement through conducting zones like so-called electron tunnels. But... when you move a cable again, those tunnels are “broken” and you then have to start again by playing your music.

The WE16 gauge speaker wire sounds great. I understand what the fuss is all about. The Belden interconnects have over 100 hours of burn in so they went into my system this weekend and these IC's also sound really great as well. They sound completely different than the Kondo KSL-LP interconnects I have been trying. Its easy to hear why so many folks are switching to the WE/Belden combo. Over the next few weeks I'll have a better handle on which interconnects I prefer but at this point I am connecting musically with Belden more than Kondo. Regards-Jet

I wonder if The Cable Company sends out WE wire. Cables have gotten as bad as speakers in that there are way too many for anyone to try enough to make a sound decision (pun intended). I once had the original WE wire. I didn't think much of it. I used it as connection wire within a tube preamp. Of course this was before our crappy solder used today.

After two days on the cooker the WE16/14 star-quad bi-wire speaker cables are now in my system.
They sound pretty darn good. I am not really surprised since I know you guys have pretty good ears but sheesh, I could have saved a bundle on speaker cables over the years!
Compared to the double run of HT Pro 11+/reterminated, the WE 16/14 wire sounds maybe just a little warmer with a little less (excessive) bloom in the bass, and a little more up front with vocals. Maybe a little wider and deeper soundstage. Tonal quality is very good. High frequencies sound quite natural. The bass I am hearing is full and has good punch. Not a night and day difference from the HT cables but a little more of this and a little less of that, mostly in a good way.
This is very similar to the sound I get with Jupiter copper wire in cotton, but maybe a little tonally warmer than the Jupiter, which sounds good tonight but makes me wonder whether the tinning is causing a sort of euphonic warmth.
The test will be to play them for awhile and then put the HT cables back in. Thanks for the suggestion to try this wire. Now I need to get busy on making ICs from the Belden cable I bought.