Jinn

audioguru, your whole post reads like an advertisement, and you question someone's opinion based on your own, without citing relevant information. Being able to "hear" the difference in cables is asinine and anecdotal at best, and Stan is right to say that "Cable breakin" would be easily measured by a signal generator and oscilloscope, or even more simply a multimeter. Cables carry one thing, and that is electrons. With margins left for noise, it's not going to transmit "better" electrons once it's broken in. It's pure nonsense, just like "Monster Cables."

As for headphones, there is absolutely difference between $5 headphones and quality headphones, but the quality is derived from the driver itself, and the range of sounds it is capable of reproducing. I've yet to hear a pair of headphones that beat Sennheiser over-the-ear or even PX100, because the tone range is much greater; has nothing to do with the cables to them.

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