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Do speaker cables need a burn in period?
AudioKarma? Now there’s bastion of backsliders and moss backs if ever there was one. I can certainly understand why you’d feel comfortable there. Ta, ta! 
How to make low end digital sound "not terrible" on higher end systems?
They’re still working on how to make digital from HIGH END sources sound good on high end systems.  
Do speaker cables need a burn in period?
azbrd@hifiman51 A few years ago i replaced my existing cables with some slightly longer ones of the EXACT same brand and gauge. The existing cables had >1000 hours of use the new ones had none and I could NOT hear ANY difference between the 2 s... 
Talk but not walk?
Thank you, Mask Man! 
Audio Sensibility grounding wires
Whatever, dude. The further adventures of Brer Rabbit and the tar baby.  
Do speaker cables need a burn in period?
There is probably nothing more touching in the audio world than when one skeptic reaches out to comfort another skeptic. So sweet. 
Audio Sensibility grounding wires
Perhaps a cold shower will suffice. 
Do speaker cables need a burn in period?
What’s perhaps even more disturbing, to anyone but especially the skeptics is the use of home feeders for treating cables, CDs, LPs, CD players and all manner of audio related things. Obviously -20 degrees F is not nearly as low as cryogenic tempe... 
Audio Sensibility grounding wires
You ask the weirdest questions. Is there some sort of competition between you and glubson I don’t know about? 
Audio Sensibility grounding wires
Are you high? They were for myself, Bozo. 🤡 
Talk but not walk?
Something’s obviously wrong with Costco-emoji. We don’t really know what it is. He exhibits a lot of Aspergers’s symptoms, but so much more. Once he sinks his teeth into you, he never lets go. Think of him as our pet wolverine. 
Cable Burn In
Next up, the top ten things that affect sound quality. Independent variables we call em. Who wants to go first? 
Do speaker cables need a burn in period?
Not very surprising as Monster Cable is crap. In fact, I’m surprised the Reynolds wrap was not judged better than Monster Cable. Now, if he had evaluated Reynolds wrap vs high end cable and got the same results, that would be news! 
Audio Sensibility grounding wires
Mapleshade has a somewhat similar device that’s a ribbon “ground plane” cable that is connected to ground and parallels the speaker cable and placed an inch away. I knocked one off a few years ago, works great! Field-shaping ground plane ribbons. 
Insider or Outsider? To be or not to be,...?
I’ve been an audio insider like forever. No big deal. I’m not like I’m trying to hide it or anything. 😳