Keeping an IC broken-in…is this a good idea?


Hi Goners,  

To keep an extra unused interconnect cable broken-in, so that when needed it is at its best performance, my plan is to connect it to the TapeOut of the preamp and back to an unused Input on the same preamp.

Will this work?  Do you see any negative effects of doing this?   Could it affect the overall sound from the pre?

What do you folks think? Good idea or not.

Thanks.


mysearcher257

Showing 2 responses by b4icu

Copper conductor (cable) do not need any brake in. Just for you, this is a common say of salesperson, when you buy a cable for a lot of $$$ and it sounds just as good (or bad) as your 5$ RadioShack cable. So to make you keep it and not return it, they invented the say: the cable needs a brake in.
Sorry for all the guys who think that this poor cable will sound better later.
I will not!
What is BI ( brake in) ?
Running current through that cable.
So why drive it at a line interconnect with an input impedance of 47k Ohms at 1V RMS (at 0.002 microamps) for 50 hrs, rather than drive it with 1A for 1 Sec.?
So you will know the answer (I’ve just told you) in a second, rather wait for weeks? No one has that good of a sound memory to say it sounds better after 2 month.
Rather han liquidise metal (copper requires  1,084.4°C to melt), go into the most cold and use super conductivity...
None is possible nor relevant.
But why not go crazy after the snake oil sellers. Let them set our agenda.
Let's talk logically:
Copper conductors are not individual to the interconnecting cables. The entire "inside" is copper conductors: PCB, wiring etc. Those are way longer than the interconnecting cables length. Why that part is left untouched?
What about all electronic equipment that has a way higher significance than an audio interconnecting cables: Space equipment, Airborn, medical, measuring instrumentation, Military, Naval and many more.
None had that requirement or say. Audiophiles DO!
Re thing the subject.