Do Interconnects need to "warm up"?

Yes, everything sounds better after being played awhile. FYI, pure silver cables are not the most musical choice:O)

Copper vs Silver is akin to listening to a performance at the BSO vs The New York Philharmonic (at the original Avery Fisher Hall). One is gloriously musical, while the latter was hard, bright and cold sounding. Metals have a sound. Pure silver cables add too much of that sound for my taste. I've heard some silver fuses and hybrid cable designs that are musical.

All I can speak to is my own experience with silver cables. The difference was not always night and day, but it definately decreased my enjoyment of listening to my system (s) over time.

Anything for the "good cause" my dear fellow! Here here, spit spot, cheerio and all that:O)

I have an AQ power cord with DBS, which kind of doesn't make sense, since it's charged all the time from the AC, but I does like the sound....alot!!

No to the battery DIY thing...you need an Anode and a Cathode wire for each one running inside the cable bundle. It expediates the dielectric warm up/breakin effect. In other words, the cable is always ready to go full throttle with no warm up or lengthy breakin process. They still need about 48hrs bur in however, despite what they say. The PC's are superb for digital gear, but for all other applications there is one better than MIT...experience and tons of cash went into my decision so don't even start!!

That's the ticket! Yeah, batteries...I have some special audiohile edition batteries for sale designed by Professor Lipschitz from We Hosem Inc. Correction, I of course meant to say there are "none better" than the MIT PC's for non digital applicaions IMHO:O) FYI, I found only a 29% increae in efficacy in the AQ balanced cables after a couple weeks, but it did improve to 35% by week 3! Of course I used a special automated tube based measuring device with zircon encrusted contacts for minimal experimental error. It's always in the details...let me know about the batteries.

Blkadr (Black Adder perhaps) brings up a point which I reject, at least in part. Audiophilia is terminology used to explain those of us who care ALOT about our HiFi systems and their capabilities to re-create musical events well enough for us to suspend belief. We experiment and choose what we find works best, without being overly biased as to any particular pursuits predilection for failure. In other words, the proof is in the puddin' my dear fellows. Those on the other side of the coin, who have pre-determinations already formed as to the efficacy of any particular avenue of audio enhancement, are the blindly religious zealots. We audiophiles are not necessarily religious.....just passionate for the advancement of the auditory arts!