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Impact on sound from moving and bending cables

In your experience, how long does it take for cables to "relax" or settle back in after you have moved them? I am not talking about just moving them an inch but when you actually bend them and such when reorganizing your rig? I have a pangea AC9 that is crazy thick and when I moved my system the other day I had to bend it in a few different ways to fit properly.

My system sounded noticeably different for the worse yesterday after I moved things around but today it has come back to life. I played music for about 8 hours since moving things around...

Also, it's really cold and dry here in CO during winters and I have a ton of static electricity. I read somewhere that unplugging your speaker cables for a few hours (5-6) will actually drain off any static built up in the cables. Anyone else hear this and try it? I am going to buy some anti static to spray or wipe on my cables and carpet around my rig also, but was curious about your guys' experience with disconnecting speaker cables to drain off static electricity.
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It could be that electricity 'learns' a path via the wire. When you change the path, the electricity learns the new path. The electrons that comprise electricity are considered matter even though they have no mass or volume but something about them qualifies them as matter by very bright people. So it may stand to reason that when observed, they behave as matter.

This matter travels a path in the most efficient way possible down the wire and when the wire (path) changes, it again learns the most efficient path. The only point of contention that I see is as infinitesimal it is to learn and navigate the new path and the speed in which it happens, is it enough to mess with the sound?

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