Beware of the cable claiming long burn in period.

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Does anyone here have thoughts on cable cookers to expedite the process of burn in?

Glad you asked. Cables do improve with burn in. Everything does. And will improve equally well whether its music you're playing or hooked up to a cooker.

The question is, why bother? Everything I have heard either sounds good right out of the box, or it doesn't. Nothing that sounds bad ever turns around and magically becomes good after a hundred hours. Sounds good, then sounds even better? Sure. But if it doesn't sound good right away don't waste your time, send it back right away. Any cable worth the money, it will sound good right away, and then as you listen it will only sound better, and better, and better. Usually so fast you can hear the changes happening even during the first few minutes. This goes for everything by the way, not just cables but speakers, phono cartridges, amps, tubes... everything.

This whole idea of patiently waiting hundreds of hours for something to sound good is a sham some people get away with because so many others haven't figured out this simple fact.  

So I’ll keep this short.  I would love for someone to show me the science behind the “burning” in of your cables.  Perhaps I don’t have the ear that some of you claim to have with all of your whimsical descriptions of sound however I can’t possibly believe that there is some mystical metallurgical process occurring with these low electrical currents.

I'll keep this short. No one serious about science has any need for name-calling. (Whimsical, mystical.)