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Does Power Cord Require Burn-In To Sound Good?

I recently bought a new power cord but there isn’t much difference in sound quality between this new cord and the previous Wireworld Elektra 7 which it replaces. The cords are used on the DAC.

Any ideas if the cord needs to burn in to open up and sound better? It currently has about 5 hours on it and I think I prefer the sound quality of the previous cord which costs 10 times cheaper.

Any thoughts appreciated.
ryder

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douglas_schroeder
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I actually compared.

See my article at Dagogo.com entitled, "Audiophile Law: Thou Shalt Not Overemphasize Burn In", wherein I compared not only broken in products, but warmed up system to a cold system. The results were telling in regard to the phenomena of "burn in" and "warm up". 


douglas_schroeder
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tbakin63, no, you are incorrect. I removed my own thread because I realized that I would spend more time than I wished curating it. I sought productive input from those associated cable cookers, and it resulted in being swamped with unwanted discussion. Solution? Kill it. 

My experiment in a more public initiation of a review was met with a decisive result, and I learned very quickly that it's a waste of time to seek well-balanced discussion on a forum to initiate a review. I spend a lot of time unpaid to write; I'm not going to add to that investment of time on articles with unproductive activities.  
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