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Burn your power cables in PROPERLY with Haglabs Frycorder

I have thousands of hours on my Nordost Heimdall2 power cables. And I put in new Gigawatt inwall wiring over 12 months ago, so hundreds if not thousands on that.

I now know I (and probably most audiophiles here) never had my power cables or power lines burned in, not even close. Because this cheap $300 product by Hagerman Audio Labs, the Frycroder2, has blown me away with only 18 hours on it so far.

A little box you just plug into the end of each power cable. It creates a series of oscillating waveforms, supposedly it burns in the power line all the way back to the first utility transformer.

Who knows if that's true, but already there is a large reduction in hash and grain, more black background e.t.c all the usual subtle things you get with burn in, but seemingly amplified 10x than normal.

I'm going to give each power cable at least 48hrs, so will take a 2 weeks to do and get a full picture after that, but already at this early stage I am a convert and Jim Hagerman is a genius.

https://www.haglabs.com/collections/break-in-devices/products/frycorder2-power-cord-burn-in-generator

agisthos
westcoastaudiophile
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@agisthos "Burn your power cables” I would add bank acct. to post too! 

mitch2
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@jea48

I like this mission statement: ...

By providing a mission statement that outlines rules of engagement, accountability in the form of active moderation, and a separate location for arguments between naysayers and true believers, A'gon could mostly clean up the pervasive bickering that monopolizes these threads.

agisthos OP
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@westcoastaudiophile

That's what this entire hobby is, a bank account burning machine.

rodman99999
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 "Burn your power cables” I would add bank acct. to post too! 

                           

                       "...this entire hobby...burning machine." ?

                                         Easy feedback:

                             Anyone that can't take the heat;

                               get out of the Kable Kitchen!

                                              ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

                          ENJOY what you have and know.

                                          Happy listening!

westcoastaudiophile
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@rodman99999 thanks for sharing your sense of humor! Being decades experienced analog design engineer, including designing devices for high volume markets (100M +), I also carefully select devices/cables/sound-sources/tracks for enjoyment! As of burnin process it’s important for: 1) tube amp after tubes refresh at least 25hr +, with final bias/balance adj. Tube amps also have significant high-voltage and high power resistor degradation, thus need to be tested or replaced often  2) fresh digital devices, if manufacturer skips it (Accuphase for example has 50hr mandatory product run after assembly, to ensure performance guarantee 3) cables - not much degradation there, cables/contacts perform the best fresh

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