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

gosta,

"...any cable when you disconnect it actually forgets all about how to transport a signal from one point to another..."

Ginko is said to work well with short-term memory issues. How about coating cables in Ginko-derived envelope? That may be a next break-through on this burn-in/settle-in topic. Significantly improved spatial orientation, too.

At least I can count.

It is all about emotions.

geoffkait,

"...start worrying what all the dust that settles on them will do to the cable and the sound. Cockroaches crawling on them may also not have the best electric properties."

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

Any time, geoffkait, any time I can help you learn more about yourself. There is nothing wrong with not being an audiophile or not having a system with fuses but participating on these threads. It is all game anyway, 100 years from now it will not matter to either one of us.

sejodiren,

"So I just took all my cables and dragged them around out in the snow...."

Nothing works like good old cryoing the cables. And you did it in organic and gluten-free way. Kudos to you. No wonder they sounded better. Could ears falling off have also influenced the sound to some extent? Maybe that is all that Van Gogh was trying to achieve. Get sweeter timbre and faster transients.

If you start worrying about moving a cable, you have way too much time on your hands and way too little of other things in them.

In fact, if you are reading this, above applies to you, too, regardless of your thoughts about moving a cable.

If you still insist that cable should not be moved because of some detrimental influence on the sound (why cannot it be better, by the way?), start worrying what all the dust that settles on them will do to the cable and the sound. Cockroaches crawling on them may also not have the best electric properties.

Good news is that settling time for dust is much better established and researched phenomenon than for cables.