Where can I get my Tri-Planar burn in cable cooker

Here is a easy way, less than $150. And you'll like the improvement.

-Buy a purist audio designs burn in cd.
-Get a RCA or XLR cable (cheapie) plug one end into your CD player. The other end of the cable cut off, go to radio shack and solder on some alligator clips.
-Hook the clips up to the leads exiting the tonearm near the head shell. (DISCONNECT FROM YOUR PHONO CARTRIDGE)
-DISCONNECT the Triplanar phono cable from your phono stage and plug it into a CD or Aux input on your preamp.
(so the signal routing is cd player to cable to alligator clips to tri planar cartridge clips to triplanar tonearm cable to AUX in on your preamp)
-follow the burn in instructions on the purist cd.
-play a few cd's for a few hours this way also.
-plug phono cartridge back in, plug tonearm cable back to phono stage.

Enjoy. There are other ways. This works for me.

wow...never thought of that before!

Thanks for the great suggestion

Somewhat similar to Jfrech's method, I've used a MOBIE to break in tonearm wiring, even daisy chaining two arms together, and offer this service to clients.

This link may be useful:

http://www.galibierdesign.com//phpbb/viewtopic.php?f=6&t=80

-Richard

These are excellent suggestions--but shouldn't manufacturers of tonearm cable burn them in at the factory, especially given how difficult it is to burn them in with normal operation?

This would be good for all cables, actually. Unlike record cleaning, this is something that can be done efficiently at the manufacturer, and given the fanaticism most manufacturers profess about their products, it seems they would want to do this.

The greatest part of cable burn-in relates to dielectric absorption, which will stabilize after so many hours of voltage passing through the conductor. The dielectric will give up this charge over an extended idle time, and the process must be repeated. Given the inevitable time gap between the maker, distributor, retailer and end-user: It would be largely a waste of effort for the process to take place at the point of manufacture.

Hello All,
New to the forum.  Will try to participate as much as possible.  My contact:   612 623 0922 or tri@triplanar.com.  If you need immediate attention, please call me in the afternoon, central time zone.  I am here to serve new and old Tri-Planar customer.  Forgive me for bad grammar.  English is my third language.
Most cable cooker / burn-in machine are line voltage and high current speaker cable.  I have tried many cooker and do not like the sound afterward.  Over cooked and burned.
Dielectric absorption is another issue.  Tri-Planar tonearm cable are pure copper or pure silver with 0.002" teflon coating.
Thank you for your support
Tri Mai

What oldtime audiophiles used to do is attach alligator clips to the cartridge tags of an arm's wiring, being fed from the output of a tuner. Leave the tuner on for awhile, it's 1-2 volt output burning in the arm's wiring much more rapidly than does the tiny signal from a cartridge (even a Decca/London ;-).