Cable Burn In

Whenever i'm bored (it's raining and i can't fish and my wife's sleeping so i can't play the music) i enjoy reading this forum.  Yes, many of the posters are predictable but also make legitimate arguments.  What i believe is that music is almost a purely emotional experience and, therefore, it's impossible to argue with someone who says they hear something, even though it can't be measured--it might not be their ears that are "hearing" it.  Could be just an emotional response. After all we can't measure love but we are reasonably certain it exists because we "feel" it.  That said i choose to fall in the measuring camp when it comes to high end audio claims and i may tend to disbelieve if it can't be measured.  What i also wonder from N80's original post is what would motivate the manufacturer to state the break-in period and how did they know it was 175 hours?  Why not 25 hours or even 750 hours?  It's a legitimate question to ask them how they determined it.  Is it possible their motive is to add further scientific-sounding goop in order to make us believe even more strongly that the cables are really going to make a difference? Or does it leave them an "out" to say we didn't break them in properly if we don't hear a difference ?  And if i don't play my system for a few months (as happens when we come to the lake for summer) do the dielectric molecules drift back into a random orientation or are they permanently "aligned" after break-in?  It all sounds like snake oil to me but the fun part of being an audiophile is that chasing perfect sound is never-ending and we're free to believe, feel and hear what we want--and nobody's going to change Geoff"s mind regardless of the merit and logic of their arguments because he says he "hears" it or "feels" it and we can't tell him it's all in his imagination.  If he imagines he sees ghosts then he does!  Thanks to N80, Prof, jea48, Shadorne and Geoff for furnishing high-end education, argument and entertainment on a rainy day.  Luckily i'm a long, long way from a high end audio store...