Absolute Power Cord users, please...


Just bought two of these cords for transport and DAC.

What is the usual burn-in time? (When do the fairies start to come out?) Or, do they come already "well massaged" from GTT?

As always, thank you for your consideration.
vvrinc

Showing 3 responses by hdm

Vvrinc: You can buy an adapter to burn the cord in on a fridge from Chris Venhaus for about $12 (which I just did), or you can probably go to any computer/electronics store and buy a male iec to 3 Prong plug adapter for about $3-$4 (which I also just did after buying the one from Chris!)which will allow you to do the same thing. I just used the adapter/fridge routine on a couple of power cords which had hundreds of hours on them on a line conditioner feeding my integrated amp and on the amp themselves, and the improvements were not subtle. I'm now skeptical, in fact, about the ability of equipment, and especially equipment that doesn't draw much current, to fully burn in power cords.
Vvrinc: I think it's more a function of the huge initial draw that refrigerator/freezer compressors have when they kick in, although a fridge itself will probably be a much higher draw even when it's just running. When the fridge compressor kicks in, it probably draws about 17 amps for that first split second. I'm kind of addicted to my system so probably won't do it right now, but next time I go away on holidays I'm going to hook up two cords to the fridge and chest freezer in the basement and just leave them there until I come back. I was actually quite shocked at what even one day on the freezer and one on a large box fan did to the two cords I mentioned above which I thought were fully broken in.
Sorry, no ideas on the interconnects or speaker cables without spending the big bucks on a cable cooker.