Best interconnect burn-in method

It also defies neurosurgery.

Uh, oh, Bessel functions. Yikes! I’m out. Guess I’ll stick with the dude from AudioQuest. Thanks anyway.

Who's zooming who? Let's clear this whole skin effect thing up for once and for all. Here's the link to AudioQuest's page on cable theory. Zoom on down the page for discussion of skin effect in audio cables. Read em and weep.

http://www.audioquest.com/pdfs/aq_cable_theory.pdf

I agree, skin effect is an issue for audio frequencies. Don’t believe it? One need look no further than the 54 ga. conductor (thinner than a human hair) in Mapleshade’s Mikro Omega ICs to see that there isn’t really anywhere else the signal can travel except on the surface. Hel-loo! Obviously, as the size of the wire increases there is less of a skin effect. Nevertheless....

Karl Popper believed science theories could be falsified, I.e., proven false by careful experiments. As fate would have it that philosophy is plainly false at least in some cases. We see frequently in audio, especially when controlled blind tests are claimed to prove such and such a thing must not work, that just because a thing is "falsified" in some test it doesn't necessary mean anything.

I fear we're witnessing the revenge of the English majors.

Shakespeare?! What? Hey! Nothing so high falutin', I'm afraid. That's David. The android from the Sci Fi flic Prometheus.

But no one here has claimed skin effect applies to audio frequencies. So what you said is, you guessed it, a Strawman Argument.

Sometimes to create you must first destroy.

Sorry to be the one to tell you but you cannot control what goes into the subconscious. Hence the "sub" in subconscious. Especially when what’s in the subconscious was put there hundreds of thousands of years ago and has remained there through the evolution process. You aren't born with a clean slate. You cannot control the controller.

Things are worse than you think. Much worse. You only think science, acoustics, electronics, neuroscience, whatever, can explain it all and that you can actually control it because you’ve lived with your while life. Besides, it’s subconscious. You can’t do anything about it even if you wanted to. Sorry to be the bearer of bad news.

You can’t control the controllers. - Anonymous

note to self: you know you’re probably in a controversial thread as soon as the word Nazi raises its head.

You’re both waaay off. You need to study mind matter interaction and evolution, especially evolution as it pertains to survival skills and sensory perception. Everything else, all the typical things audiophiles take for granted, are not even close. But gee, where does one go to find out how the immediate surroundings affect hearing and about evolution of the senses and survival? The biggest thing in audio and you can’t even find any textbooks about it. 😩