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Tonearm wire burn-in question.

I have my ET2 arm wired with one continuous run of wire from cartridge clips all the way to the circuit board of my phono preamp; where it is hardwired. I just replaced the Discovery tonearm wire that I used for years with Audionote silver wire. It is an absolutely fabulous wire. AN claims it needs very little break-in, but I would like to burn it in anyway using a line level signal.

I would like to not have to dismantle and unsolder the existing wire arrangement.If I send a line level signal from the cartridge clip end of the wire to the preamp (turned off, of course!), will the wire get broken-in? Or does the device at the receiving end need to be active (turned on) for the burn-in to be effective?

Thanks to all
frogman

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mikelavigne
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for peace of mind that you 'know' the breakin signal is 'getting thru'.....unplug the phono cable from the phono stage and plug it into a line level input on your preamp. verify the signal is getting thru and then you can turn down the volume if you like.

'proof' sometimes helps our mental comfort level.

don't turn on the phono stage with the breakin signal being run.; sending a line level signal thru the high gain MC input might not be good.
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