Cable Burn-In Question Interconnect & Speaker

Hi Oak3x - obviously Riffer is just trying to be helpful in his OWN way - otherwise why would he bother to comment???? We offer free cable burn in service with the purchase of any new cables, which helps out the guys with long runs and/or tube gear immensely. We generally run about 36-40 hours on i/c and speaker cables, which gets the cables reasonably close. Phono cables need to have much shorter time and only be done on the Nordost cooker. We have found that you can "overcook" cables by leaving them on the burn in machine for too long. This results in very edgy, brittle, harsh upper mids/highs, but this CAN be corrected in a couple of different ways that I won't get into here. For myself, I use the burn in machines for the 40 hours then put the cables in my system and run music ( Yes -real, actual music) for the remaining time and that seems to get the job done. I hope this HAS been helpful - John