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Originally Posted by hilbert25
Look, whatever makes your system sound better to you is better for you. But, do not act condescending to others without your "golden ears" that can't hear the difference.
How can you explain this so called burn-in? I can see burning in amps, speakers, and perhaps even cd players. I can even see there possibly being a difference between Transparent cables and Radioshack, but every explanation for wire break in has been mumbo-jumbo about "aligning the molecules." Can you provide an actual explanation, or better yet, why don't you take a true double-blind test of cooked cables vs. new of the same brand of cable and post the results. It would provide a good bit of empiricism to separate the snake oil from real science.
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I believe it was you who made the original condescending remark, saying that "audiophiles love to believe they can hear a difference." I have yet to research into what makes a broken in cable different, but I can hear a difference. I heard it Thursday at work, I had to replace a 2m Audioquest Sidewinder that we use every day with a 3m Audioquest Sidewinder. The system consisted of:
Shanling SCD-T200 SACD player, $2999
Rogue Audio Ninety Nine preamp, $2399
Rogue Audio Zeus dual mono 225wpc amp, $6799
Von Schweikert VR-4SE speakers, $5999
Audioquest Panther cables between pre and CD
Audioquest Sidewinder between pre and power
Audioquest Type-4 speaker cables
We listened to Norah Jones's
Feels Like Home CD, a very well recorded album that I know extremely well. Norah's voice was noticeably smoother on the "burned in" cable. Her voice sounded downright harsh on the fresh cable, and that's off a tube amp which are known for their natural reproduction of vocals. You can call BS if you like, all I can tell you is what I heard.