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Cable burn in question.

post #1 of 6
2/3/05 at 3:46pm
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I have a Zu Pivot, which is a mini plug to RCA. It leaves my Ipod dock and goes into my amp.

My question....do I have to plug the cable into the amp to burn it in? Or can I just leave the Ipod on, and run the signal through the dock into the cable?

I'm asking because I don't want to waste amp battery life burning in the cable.
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post #2 of 6
2/3/05 at 4:09pm
Take this with a grain of salt, but I think you have to have a load (both ends plugged in and devices turned on) in order to draw current all the way through the cable.
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post #3 of 6
2/3/05 at 4:31pm
plug both ends in obviously, but the destination device doesn't have to be on. When burning in speaker cables, use a 4ohm, suitable wattage resistor. Come to think of it, you can probably drop some resistors (10Kohm?) across the RCAs in a similar manner, but it's easier to just leave the amp off.

edit: my comment about speaker cables/resistors is also valid for amplifier burn-ing. For a headphone amp, a 32->300ohm resistor is a good choice. Bottom line, you need to make the device feel at home when you're burning it in.
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post #4 of 6
2/3/05 at 5:33pm
I believe in headphone burn-in(moving diaphrams), I even believe solid sate devices can burn-in(capacitors forming or whatever). But someone, anyone, please give me a plausible scientific reason to believe that cable burn-in is possible to any audible degree?
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post #5 of 6
2/3/05 at 5:35pm
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Can you start another thread and discuss that? I'd like a definitive answer to my question. I'm assuming Jef is right, I'm hoping for another person to chime in and confirm.
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post #6 of 6
2/3/05 at 6:40pm
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Originally Posted by Blitzula
Can you start another thread and discuss that? I'd like a definitive answer to my question. I'm assuming Jef is right, I'm hoping for another person to chime in and confirm.
In order to give you a truly definitive answer, someone would need to be able to answer my question as well. If they don't know how burn-in happens, they're just guessing at what needs to be done to produce it.

I'm here to learn something not to argue. Sorry if you think this was an attempt to side-track. I'm out of this thread.
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