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slewis:

Typing "cable burn in" into google brings up various oppinions.....

So I did. What you get are loads of forum entries with the revolving debates that we keep on getting here. There are also a surprising amount of companies that offer cable burning in services and equipment. There is very little science. You do get a lot of opinion written in a scientific style using scientific words. But it is easy to see that such is theoretical, is based on assumptions and continually slips into philosophical  analogy and reasoning, but is presented as science. That is from both camps.

So in the end, some people hear a difference to cables over time and others do not. As to why that is, not sure and I don't think that anyone truely is.

From me, for what it is worth, I have heard one cable, the Kimber 4TC speaker cable change over time. The change was not significant and it did not really sound better. It just sounded different, but not in a bad way. As for all of the other cables I have owned, nothing.

IMHO, rather than going round and round again, much to the delight of certain mischief makers, I will only contribute to cable threads where something new, positive, interesting and hopefully scientific appears.

yeah lets not go down that anti-vs pro cable route, but when I said extortionate I mean like paying hundreds of pounds on a must have cable. even if there is weight in the pro camp, in terms of materials and research there is only so far you can push the technological boundarys of coper wire and after a certain price point there is no justification for charging anymore and its a shame that some companys will try and get them up as high as 3k! and that is what spoils it for every one.

PJPro:

BTW, I didn't think we were doing these cable debates any more?

It started off as such an innocent question........