Hi Leafs, just trying to inject a bit of levity. The point was that wine does not continue to get better and better. After it reaches its peak, it begins a slow fading process. I do remember another post mentioning cable simply wearing out. I'm sure someone will jump in to say that the materials in a cable can't possibly wear out until the next millennium passes, but I do think that some cables lose something after a few years. This is only a suspicion, and I have no facts to back it up. Perhaps someone can enlighten me a bit here. I recently bought an interconnect that was burned in by the dealer. Well... all I can say is that it sounded like every other non burned in cable I have had, and I am going through my usual break in process. The XLO break in CD that Megasam mentions is excellent. Brian, I have no experience with the Coincident, but some of my cables sounded fine at around 85 hours, some took 200 hours. I tend to try to run in a cable for about 16- 18 hours a day. I worry too much about running it non stop. This doesn't seem to inhibit the break in process.
