Cable re-burn in


How long does it take for an already burnt in cable to re-burn in back to optimal? I'm doing a lot of interconnect and speaker cable comparisons and sometimes a cable will sit unused for several hours to several days. Is it a fair comparison to A/B one cable against another when cable "B" has sat for unused foe 3 days?
gooddomino

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I have always been skeptical about cable burn in.

Last week I recommissioned a pair of bi-wire AQ Caldera speak cables that I plan to sell here on AGon. Initially the sound I go was terrible. Dark, hazy sound with no stage depth or width. I would have immediately swapped them back out but had worked up a sweat installing them so I let them be and kept music on throughout the day as I tooled around the house.

The next day things sounded much better and by last night I was considering leaving them in and selling my Transparent Ultra XL cables instead.