Comparing AQ Diamonds to the new AQ interconnects

Can any of you tell me what the Daimonds sound like before they break in? A friend got a demo pair from a dealer and brought them over here and I have no idea if they had any time on them. They didn't sound at all like I thought a cable of this design might sound like, I don't want to write them off out of hand, the bass was odd and very uncontrolled and the space was flattened, and the sound stage was puny. Is that the way they sound out of the box? It sounded like JBL L 100's! I know they gotta sound better than that.

I understand you shouldn't run the networked cables(MIT,Transparent)on a burner. I would love to try one out, I am sure that is why some of the cables I listened to 15 years ago sounded bad, I didn't know anything about cable burn in back then.