... what is Settling Time in cables and interconnects...

Turn on, burn in, drop dead. - Alfred E. Newman 

Well, let’s not get too crazy. 🤗

It can’t be bunk. You can only de-dunk something that is bunk to begin with. Besides how can PT Barnum be laughing from beyond the grave? Did he get out of his grave and go somewhere? Is he a zombie?

Glubson illustrates the subtle shadings in difference among the words retried, retired, retorted, retarded, retreated and retread. 😛

glubson, why in the World are you misquoting me? Is this part of some sort of ill conceived new disinformation and misinformation campaign? Not that you would know the difference.

I see what you mean.

inna
They don’t want to sell broken - in equipment. It has a bad sound to it.

>>>>>That’s quite a bold statement and one that flies in the face of most people’s experience. Do you have any evidence to back up your statement?

inna
In any case, I would not call idiots those who have no opportunity to defend themselves and I would not teach them how to do commerce.

>>>>I’m not calling them idiots. I’m calling them short-sighted and perhaps close minded. No offense to them or you. They are free to post their comments on the subject here as this is a free forum. If I thought it would do any good I’d send out an email distribution to all appropriate manufacturers.

They don’t break in wire for the same reason they don’t use better power cords or better fuses. They have never heard of them. 

It’s actually because they don’t know about it. They don’t even break in their stuff for the big shows. Which isn’t really too swift. But hey! C’est la vie, as they say in Des Moines.

Obviously when you’re not an audiophile this sort of thing doesn’t matter. Thanks for the reminder, glubson.

Innocent question. What were you doing for 30 years? 

Worrywarts = audiophiles 😬

People who can hear it = audiophiles 🤗

“What’s in the air,” cable settling time and cable burn in time are what we call INDEPENDENT VARIABLES. They must be considered individually independent of the others. And they are not the only variables involved, either.

How much time do you have.? We haven’t even talked about vibration and static electrical charges and their effects on cables. It all depends on where you get off the whole cable thing as to how much effort and cost you’re willing to commit to the cable project. Then we come to the Tweaks. The creams, the sprays, the cable wraps, the suspensions, the....😬