wanna know what burns my butt?
A flame about three feet high…. and burning in wires/gear!!
it needlessly burns up gear. if there is a better reason for having a secondary lower end outfit for this express purpose, I can’t think of it.
if ya wanna build a ship in a bottle, at some point you will need a bottle.
if you don’t wanna burn up or be burned up by extensive run ins, add a 2nd rig for this purpose from time to time.
we all need another rig for the kitchen, or tool shed, right?
maybe if more wire makers ‘cryo’d’ them they would run in sooner. mebbe not. dunno. don’t care really.
the truth is that wires, like most anything else has to be active (especially when brannd new) for X period to sound its best.
IMO 200 hours ought to show some improvements. at least it should show it is headed for a happy ending if not already there, regardless what it is. amps and speakrs notwithstanding.
apart from inert non active items electricity gots to flow thru it/them.
I’ve sent one or two wires back myself that were taking hundreds of hours (30 day trial) despite the encouragement from the seller. why? it was costing me. Actually it was costing my gear’s longevity. Tubes don’t last forever.
high dollar disk spinners age as well with every rotation. likewise with TTS.
I’m not gonna run up a year’s worth of disk spinning just to get a freakin’ digital wire sounding better.
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so I landed on these thoughts early on in my audio aprenticeship
for power cords, spend $20 or $30 on some NEMA to IEC adapters. plug ‘em in or even daisy chain ‘em together on the ice box, freezer, fan, etc. check on ‘em in one week. no need to baste or turn.
same thing for XLR TO RCA adapters, if necessary.
get a cheap SS INT or receiver, and a likewise Blue Ray player and connect up a pr of bookshelf squeakers for running in SPDIF, IC & spkr wires. violin!
put it all in a closet or ?? room, and check on it in a week, or 168 hours. insert into main rig. run for one day or so… if not thrilled? let the Post office make your statement on its performance as by then it has run in about 200 hours.
it ain’t rocket science. nor is science ever in question. it simply is what it is.
natrually if the maker has said it needs 400 hrs. its on you to decide what’s next? another week of the same thing? or?
if all of the above items are in play now then why not?
every wire should have a 30 day trial period anyhow.
burn in, or run in is simply a dreaded woeful aspect of the hobby for those who wish to wander and wonder if that next wire or device will improve ones outfit’s SQ.
it ain’t gonna change either, or so it seems. even the associated arguments remain the same, only the names change.