Dopogue - I agree with you. It is almost impossible for a phono cable to burn in with that miniscule signal passing through it. Especially silver ones. Here's what I did.
I got some male RCA's and some reasonable lengths of solid core copper wire of a gauge that fits into the cartridge clips. I soldered the wire to the male RCA's and inserted the other, bare end into the cartridge clips. Then I plugged the male RCA's into my CD player and the other end of the phono interconnect into my preamp inputs (NOT the phono circuit). Then let it spin and break in just like any other interconnect. It burns in both the tonearm wire and the phono interconnact at the same time.
100 hours of that will never be replicated via the output of a regular phono cartridge.
Enjoy,
Bob
I got some male RCA's and some reasonable lengths of solid core copper wire of a gauge that fits into the cartridge clips. I soldered the wire to the male RCA's and inserted the other, bare end into the cartridge clips. Then I plugged the male RCA's into my CD player and the other end of the phono interconnect into my preamp inputs (NOT the phono circuit). Then let it spin and break in just like any other interconnect. It burns in both the tonearm wire and the phono interconnact at the same time.
100 hours of that will never be replicated via the output of a regular phono cartridge.
Enjoy,
Bob