Cables Need Burn In?

[Pangaea]

I have 2 nice cables in route. An ALO horseshoe, and a Turbo Dock to mini. Do high end cables need burn in time like amps, etc?

 

[markl]

Yes, high and low-end cables need burn-in.

 

[Zorander]

Just run signal through them for a few hours. That should clear up any doubts.

 

[Vul Kuolun]

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Originally Posted by Pangaea /img/forum/go_quote.gif Do high end cables need burn in time like amps, etc?

Lots of.

But when it really comes to sound quality, there's nothing like carefully rubbing your higher end cables with kosher spread.

 

[Lawrenzini]

Utter crap, it takes a cable a milisecond to "burn-in". If you're imagining the flow of electricity through a cable as like water you are completly wrong. If you can "hear" the difference between a "burned in" cable and a none "burned in" one then you are fooling yourself and should really question your ability to hear correctly.

 

[meat01]

No, cables do not need burn in. Lawrenzini is correct. Just plug them in and enjoy them.

 

[mrarroyo]

I believe so!

 

[nfsu]

Cable burn-in doesn't exist. When electricity comes through cable nothing changes in it.

 

[bigshot]

Placebo needs time to burn in.

See ya
Steve

 

[DSlayerZX]

I have a feeling that an ugly debate is coming right up/

but anyway, I seriously don't know if they need burn in, since I never try to listen to the difference of the burn in effect. Just run it for a few hour... I think you will be fine

 

[Lawrenzini]

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Originally Posted by DSlayerZX /img/forum/go_quote.gif I have a feeling that an ugly debate is coming right up/

There's no debate, it simply isn't true. Anyone who understands just how electricity travels through a cable will tell you that it is impossible for a cable to "burn-in".

However, most people do not understand the physics behind it and therefore imagine an analogy of something like water. This is not the case.

Cable vendors who advocate burn in should clearly understand why it is not possible, however it may just be the case that the cable takes 18 days to burn in while you only have 14 days to return it.

 

[lordkelmain]

rofl....

Lawrenzini's right.

- lk

 

[robm321]

Yes!

 

[PhilS]

You will get no meaningful answer on this thread. Those who believe all cables sound the same are going to tell you that cables don't need burn in. (And they will use this thread to rehash the same old arguments and insults that always appear when these discussions ensue. And then they will sit back and smoke a cigarrette after they reach fulfillment). Those who believe there are audible differences between cables, will probably venture the contrary on the burn in issue (although I suppose some who believe cables sound different may not believe in burn in). In any event, most of what you get on this thread will be worhtless to your own evaluation of the matter, which is all that counts.

FWIW, while I personally have heard differences between cables, I have no firm opinion on the burn in issue. Sometimes in the past when I got a new cable, I was in a position to burn it in quite easily. So I did. On other occasions, when it was more of a hassle, I didn't really engage in any burn in other than listening to it. But I gave myself plenty of time to evaluate the cable before I made a decision whether it made any difference in my system. and was worth what I paid for it. In other words, by the time I made this judgment (and sometimes I kept the cable and sometimes I did not), I had used the cable long enough so any burn in issue had become moot.

 

[hciman77]

Some before and after measurements should settle the matter one way or another without recourse to squabbling, if a cable behaves differently electrically after n hours then burn-in is credible if it behaves the same then the null hypothesis cannot be rejected, simple enough surely. On the principle that a cable does not amplify any part of a signal it can at worst only diminish parts of it.