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Tonearm wire burn-in question.

I have my ET2 arm wired with one continuous run of wire from cartridge clips all the way to the circuit board of my phono preamp; where it is hardwired. I just replaced the Discovery tonearm wire that I used for years with Audionote silver wire. It is an absolutely fabulous wire. AN claims it needs very little break-in, but I would like to burn it in anyway using a line level signal.

I would like to not have to dismantle and unsolder the existing wire arrangement.If I send a line level signal from the cartridge clip end of the wire to the preamp (turned off, of course!), will the wire get broken-in? Or does the device at the receiving end need to be active (turned on) for the burn-in to be effective?

Thanks to all
frogman

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frogman OP
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Thanks to all for your comments and suggestions. A point of clarification: The tonearm wire is hardwired to the preamp's circuit board, and I am trying to avoid having to unsolder them.

Al, your concerns are valid, I will consider them. Zargon, while I understand the principle behind the burn-in CD (I have used, with success, the Cardas frequency sweep burn-in lp)isn't the idea to send through the wire a signal of much higher voltage than the tiny .2-4 mv normally outed by a cartridge, in order to burn it in?
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