​Cable Burn In?

[Don Hills]

I dont think his ears are resolving enough

 

It's a race between his cables burning in and his ears wearing out... :-)

[Ralf11]

The same ones? Golly, it sure takes a long time breaking stuff in for best sound.

 

yes, still trying to burn them - can't get the smelter hot enuff

[Ralf11]

yes, still trying to burn them - can't get the smelter hot enuff

 

 

got the directional vinyl wrap all lined up tho

[sjay]

don't forget your cable lifters, they need burning in too!

[jabbr]

yes, still trying to burn them - can't get the smelter hot enuff

Hey I have a gadget that can burn-in your cables in 1/2 the time and it comes with a 1 year money back warrantee!

[gmgraves]

It was a green XK150, 1958 I think. It was the late 70s. We were college kids and found it in a barn in CT while we were painting a house on the same property one summer.

 

The owner gave it to us! Once restored the proceeds from the sale paid half a year of my college tuition of $4000.

 

Ours had an electronic overdrive switch on the dash. The lines were absolutely beautiful.

 

One in good shape today is easily worth 10X - 20X that and possibly more. Don't you wish you'd kept it? I wish I still had mine.

[gmgraves]

don't forget your cable lifters, they need burning in too!

 

!!!!!!!

[2M Mark]

well said OldBigEars

thats what happens some get bitter with age some get bitter knowing others can spend/waist money if you will on cables, food and wine, cloths, expensive high end hifi, cars, houses, boats and some women that are known to take the lot, at the end of the day each to his own. as for cable burn in boom lucky I did not return em. if you buy 1 dollar cables and you happy good for you, if you buy thousands of dollar per cable and they sound better to you and your happy good for you. Bless everyone rich n poor and all between

[Speedskater]

20 years and I'm still trying to burn in my speaker cables

Audio signals are so small compared to the capabilities of the cables, it's no wonder that they haven't burnt in yet.

[vmartell22]

So I guess none of you cynics are buying the following anytime soon?

 

High Fidelity Cables

 

Personally I think that this cable would be perfect for Wgscott's system.

He he.... direction... HAHAHAHAHA

 

(puts on flame resistant underwear)

[Middy]

Magnitism and high cost.....

Either either way I can't see the attraction...?

 

 

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[sjay]

/thread.

[EdmontonCanuck]

/thread.

</staydead>

[NOMBEDES]

All our friends have cables, take it slow

Wait for them to ask you what you know

Please don’t make any sudden claims

You don’t know the half of all the pains

 

We all like cables very well

We think they have a certain smell

 

We can hear their intentions

Cables go in one direction

 

High end cables are a fraud

Its all about the baud

 

 

With apologies to 21 Pilot.

[ShawnC]

All our friends have cables, take it slow

Wait for them to ask you what you know

Please don’t make any sudden claims

You don’t know the half of all the pains

 

We all like cables very well

We think they have a certain smell

 

We can hear their intentions

Cables go in one direction

 

High end cables are a fraud

Its all about the baud

 

 

With apologies to 21 Pilot.

Audio Poem of the year?

[NOMBEDES]

Audio Poem of the year?

 

 

 

If nominated for the Nobel, I will join Bobby Dylan and not attend the big show. (but if the committee springs for airfare and hotel expenses, hey all bets are off)

[rando]

/thread.

 

</staydead>

 

[r_w]

The quality of a cable is in the beholder's eye

 

 

That’s why I prefer DIY

 

 

I don’t mind if that casts me alone

 

 

I just prefer to make my own

 

 

Exotic claims will come and go

 

 

Some covertly tinker at shows

 

 

All I know is what makes sense

 

 

Little does when price is immense

 

 

Some are dizzy with lust and glory

 

 

I didn’t quite buy that story

 

 

I’m no engineer, it’s easy to do

 

 

Anyone can, certainly you

 

 

Take to your irons and make perfect lengths

 

 

Then you will hear your system’s strengths

[jkelly]

The timing on this thread is perfect.

 

I had been using a $10 dollar IBRA HDMI cable from Amazon, that was feeding I2S from a SingXer SU-1 to a Holo Spring Level 3 dac.

 

This cable was actually very good, with great horizontal location of instruments and about 4 zone layers of depth. If anything it was a touch bright. I recently replaced that with a $170 dollar Wireworld Starlight HDMI cable. This cable has tremendous low frequency power. Most ballads sound like power ballads now. However I don't have the localization of instruments horizontally or front to back that the IBRA has. (Wish I could combine the two). So this break-in will be about getting the soundstage closer to the IBRA and possibly adding a little more high frequencies.

That will be the test of break-in for me.

Jeff

[4est]

Have you considered that that is simply how the cable sounds and break in may not help it? Sadly, that is often how things are. Some cables do this, but not that and vice versa. It can be a pisser...

The timing on this thread is perfect.

 

I had been using a $10 dollar IBRA HDMI cable from Amazon, that was feeding I2S from a SingXer SU-1 to a Holo Spring Level 3 dac.

 

This cable was actually very good, with great horizontal location of instruments and about 4 zone layers of depth. If anything it was a touch bright. I recently replaced that with a $170 dollar Wireworld Starlight HDMI cable. This cable has tremendous low frequency power. Most ballads sound like power ballads now. However I don't have the localization of instruments horizontally or front to back that the IBRA has. (Wish I could combine the two). So this break-in will be about getting the soundstage closer to the IBRA and possibly adding a little more high frequencies.

That will be the test of break-in for me.

Jeff

[ShawnC]

It's a poem off!

The quality of a cable is in the beholder's eye

 

 

That’s why I prefer DIY

 

 

I don’t mind if that casts me alone

 

 

I just prefer to make my own

 

 

Exotic claims will come and go

 

 

Some covertly tinker at shows

 

 

All I know is what makes sense

 

 

Little does when price is immense

 

 

Some are dizzy with lust and glory

 

 

I didn’t quite buy that story

 

 

I’m no engineer, it’s easy to do

 

 

Anyone can, certainly you

 

 

Take to your irons and make perfect lengths

 

 

Then you will hear your system’s strengths

[Middy]

There once was a cable call rick

as big as an elephant d**K

He worked with aplomb

but did cost a bomb

Enough to make an audiphile sick....

 

just made it up so still rough...

 

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[ShawnC]

I was waiting for the first Limerick. Love the avatar

There once was a cable call rick

as big as an elephant d**K

He work with aplomb

but did cost a bomb

Enough to make an audiphile sick....

 

just made it up so still rough...

 

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[Middy]

I was waiting for the first Limerick. Love the avatar

Trashy avatar for a trashy limerick..?

Cheers

Dave

 

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[r_w]

I quite like the idea of cable related juvenile limerick thread, that would make a great daily read.

 

 

 

There was a nice girl called Mabel

 

 

I offered to show her my cable

 

 

She showed me her socket

 

 

And whilst I tried to dock it

 

 

We GND’d ourselves on the table

 

 

---

 

 

She said she had a twin sister

 

 

I saw and I couldn’t resistor

 

 

I needed a shield

 

 

Before she would yield

 

 

So I fondled her tits and just kissed her

 

 

 

... I'm here all week.