Beware of the cable claiming long burn in period.

Oh...and foghorn reference was cute!  :)

Thank you....but I am very well aware that different dielectrics have varying properties when different signals are applied... we can throw in temperature for all matters of this discussion as well.  What we are hearing is very subjective.  I’ve seen some horrible cabling (and it was not high end wire) in high end electronics which sounded great in my opinion. What might sound good to you may not sound so good to me.  There is a point of no return on the cost.  Sorry ...tough to hear the time or cost of burn in.

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.) 

My experiences with dozens of cables indicate that they tend to sound good within 24 hours of use.  This is also relative to the manufacture of the cables.  I didn't notice any difference in Monster cables from the 1980s.  GroverHuffman cables can sound good within 6 to 8 hours of use but really settle in after about a days use.  

Same problem with fuses. The SR Black fuse took 72 hours to burn in and sound acceptable in several of my systems.  The SR Blue fuse sounded excellent immediately and just got better over time.  The SR black duplex sounded good immediately and similarly just got better over time.  

I wouldn't want to purchase a cable that required 500 hours of use just as I hate it that so many speakers require 100s of hours to break in (especially those with berrillium tweeters).