question about wire break in

08-31-13: Bojack
Lmr,

Wire "break-in" is all hogwash, and all the long-winded explanations proffered by some are gobbley gook with zero basis in the principles of electrical engineering. Save your money and your sanity...traditional stranded copper cable of sufficient gauge is all you need.
Bojack (Threads | Answers | This Thread)

Ignorance on the subject is bliss.

I would bet you have never taken the time to experiment/ listen for differences in cables.

Yes Bojack, there are differences. Some for better, some for worse.

As for "the principles of electrical engineering" what does that mean?
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Wow how interesting!!

A perfect example of pontificating from The Throne of Abject Ignorance.

It seems pretty clear that the cable break in phenomenon is part of the whole cable controvery that has been going on these 35 years or so. Once one breaks away from the basic ideas that all cables sound the same, that higher purity conductors are no different than lower purity ones, that the length of cables doesn't influence the sound, that the dielectric material doesn't change the sound, that thicker conductors are necessarily better than thinner ones, etc. then one can experiment with breaking in cables, how long it takes to break in cables, the best methods for breaking in cables and so forth. A great many cable manufactures have obviously concluded that cryogenics is required to be competitive and quite a few manufacturers offer free Burn In of cables for customers on new fangled burn in devices such as the AudioDharma Cable Cooker. And Break In tracks on Test CDs have been available for at least 20 years. How far can one go with all of this? That is the burning question.

A comment on my experience with the seven meter Kimber Hero. usually I am more of a 'first sound' and have to agree some of the change is just getting used to a sound.
So i was VERY tempted to immediately take off the Hero and return it.
Only because it was seven meters long I gave it a few days running (at low levels day and night) to see if it would change. It did.