Seasoning your sound with powercords

Let your speakers burn in for at least 72 hours of playing.

b_limo I am speechless.  

Looscannon, 24 posts, been a member for 3 days, no virtual system?  Speechless is a good stance to keep.

Classic. Can we pin this to the top of every thread? 

Why do people believe they can estimate the SQ of a system by looking at the pictures? Or to know the brand names of components? To borrow the words of Hemingway, isn’t it pretty to think so?

Nix the seasoning, assembling an audio system ain't cooking.  It's more akin to eating.  Then again, try taking the whole audiophile a little less seriously.

@b_limo , "Speechless is a good stance to keep." Thank you for making my day. Enjoy the music

I have no idea what just happened.  If its the speakers opening up or the dac finally warming up, or both but what I am hearing now is off the charts.  That was the biggest change I have ever heard in any of my set-ups.  Night and day difference.

Perfectly normal. Happens all the time. Congratulations, hearing this shows you're actually listening. Every component goes through rather dramatic changes, especially during the first few hours its burning/settling in. And yes twisting and bending wires does indeed disturb performance. Sometimes a lot.

My system goes through a rather dramatic warmup every night. I don't even want to hear it when it first comes on. Usually play some demagnetizing tracks and have dinner or sometimes tweak interweb snowflakes while it warms up. Even then the first side sounds blah. Huge improvement just from the beginning to the end of the first side. Even then it continues to improve, and for quite some time.

Chris Brady of Teres Audio was over one night. The system was well warmed up and playing music before he got there. Even so, after a while he said, "It sounds even better now than when I got here." When the difference is big enough a guy who is unfamiliar with your system can hear it even playing different records you know its no small thing. The crazy part is even cold it sounds great to anyone who hasn't heard it before. So its not like it ever sounds bad. Its more like you said, night and day, and warmed up goes to eleven.

But back to the OP:

Do you season your components with opposing sounding powercords?
For instance, if your dac is neutral would you put a warmer sounding powercord on it?  And if you have a warmer sounding amp would you put a leaner sounding powercord on that?

A lot do but I think its nuts. Think about it. The idea is to deliberately buy something with a known fault, to cover up something else with a known fault. So maybe the result sounds good. Fine I guess if that's all you ever do. But what happens when the day comes you upgrade the awful DAC for one that actually sounds good? After who knows how many things bought in the meantime, all trying to cover up the fault of the one bad DAC. Now look what you did- went and bought a great component that makes your whole system sound bad, because you made your whole system sound bad trying to cover up the worst bad one of them all.

Brilliant. No thanks.

Power cords as tone controls! LOL!

The "warm up effect" is actually the listeners' hearing adjusting to the sound! Happens to everybody!

Cut us some slack, robberjobberman. You can‘t debunk something that’s not bunk.

“or sometimes tweak interweb snowflakes while it warms up”

@millercarbon, now that is hilarious!

I bought my MIT p/c's to eliminate seasoning.. Clean sound :)

Millercarbon, I'm speechless again.
I've been watching for a while to get the flavor of it.  I never talk about my system nor do I photograph it.  What I say has to stand on it's own irregardless of my own set up.  

@b_limo  everybody uses their cables as "seasoning".Otherwise why make a change at all if you aren't expecting a different or better sound.
Most of us have made too many changes too close together and can't figure out which one is the culprit.My theory is one of new items begins to break in and subtly change the sound.It sneaks up on you.If you still have the old cord and dac you could switch out one thing at time and see if you can figure it out.Or hang tough and allow for longer break in.I hope you'll post updates:-)