Conditioning/Burn-In Method


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Potentially controversial subject matter ahead. Thus post is recommended for mature audiences only. If you're in the school of thought that cables are voodoo, this post is not for you, please move among.

Now, to business.

I'm in the process of working in a set of Signal Cable Silver Resolution XLR interconnects between my DAC, Preamp and Amplifier. So far, I probably have only 20 hours or so of play, and if memory serves, Frank recommends 60 hours or more. Given the difference in amplitude from DAC to Preamp, and from Preamp to Amplifier, do you guys think it might be worth swapping them out (rotating them) to help balance and perhaps accelerate the process?

Thanks in advance!

parabolic

Showing 3 responses by geoffkait

Addendum: for breaking in the speaker drivers and surrounds making speakers out of phase to each other and facing each other would be very <effective> since they would be <physically> exercised the most. But not (rpt not) because they cancel each other out or reduce the volume of sound. They would actually be playing <louder> since the diaphragms’ excursions would be greater when out of phase to each other.
Are you sure? If the speakers were out of phase with each other and faced each other wouldn’t they reinforce each other? One would push when the other pulled, as it were.  If they were in the same phase each would constrain the motion of the other.
Yeah, as if anyone can keep track of how cables are sounding over long periods of time. Heck, the sound changes every day for a boatload of perfectly valid reasons. What are you going to do, blame it all on the cables? Maybe the fuses? Wire directionality? The weather? Give me a break!