Why do new cables needs to be "broken" ???

Pierre,

This will be fun to watch. Cable performance & break in is like discussing religion or football...

I guess we have to wait till the electrons all line up so they can march down the single crystal-cryotreated-warmed up oh so carefully--6 9's pure copper (or silver or palladium or my own proprietary quasiallow) diameter matched-actively shielded pathway we provide them.

Let the entertainment commence!!

Bignerd,

If you hook the cables up backwards and spin beatles platters backwards, does it sound forwards?

I think that there is one legitimate thing happening--the connections are changing over time. As the wire settles into a configuration where the forces are balanced, you should retighten your connections.

Modern physics does not let us predict any change in the way the wire conducts electrons (notice I don't say they don't sound different, just that we can't explain why the would...)