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Cable Cooking/Burnin

I read this on KLE Innovations, http://kleinnovations.com/kle-innovations-klei-products/essence-gzero-ic/, and wondered what your thoughts on Cable Cooking/Burnin might be ...

Burnin/Cooking Time

We believe that the Burnin/Cooking process can be thought of as an extension/finishing of the Annealing process.

This is a practice that can dramatically/drastically improve performance and has been gaining acceptance from HiFi enthusiasts :) Usually, any listener will be able to identify a marked change/improvement in audio component performance within the first 100 or more hours of use, whether it be a cable, connector, component or loudspeaker.

Burnin/Cooking time is the process whereby electrical signal/charge gradually settles/corrects/aligns dielectric, electromagnetic, and material (metal and non-metal) issues that occur/result during the construction process. These aspects are often and usually found in Cables/Connectors and usually results in a brittle, bright, muddy, non-cohesive sound that lacks the Detail, Resolution, Timbre, PRaT, Harmonic Texture, Organicness, Naturalness, and Staging which is desired for music reproduction. Burnin/Cooking Time improves the way that signal passes through the conductors and dielectrics and it is the resulting changes in signal transmission that refines and defines the performance of the audio cables.

While it is most important to implement Burnin/Cooking Time, upon purchase, routine maintenance is always important, also. Cables/Connectors that have not been played, or left unused, for long/prolonged periods of time, may become stagnant and again require Burnin/Cooking Time.
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Less are saying nay today? Interesting....;-)
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Cryogenics benefits all or almost all materials, steel, aluminum, plastic, whatever. So most likely one shouldn't equate cryo with burn in. If you wish to burn in the entire system look no further than the XLO test CD burn in track. Put the player on REPEAT and let 'er rip. Case closed. That doesn't mean you can skip the cryo bit. See, there's always something. Lol
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Why do you think that electrical burn-in is as simple as that?

Do you think that Cryo is as simple as sticking some material (steel, aluminum, plastic, whatever) in liquid nitrogen then pulling it out again and it is all done!

Heating and cooling annealing is an exact process and in fact there are many standards...

There are probably many methods/processes of electrical annealing! ... isn't metallurgy/alchemy an amazing :)
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I certainly do not think that cryogenics involves dipping something in liquid nitrogen and pulling it out. Whatever gave you that idea? It's all computer controlled or should be. I also am a big fan of home freezing, you know, to save on the cost and time of sending things off to the cryo lab. ;-)
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From what has been written it would appear that a change to the physical state of metal could be loosely referred to as annealing!

So, heat annealing (heating and cooling), cryo annealing (freezing and warming), and electrical annealing, all change the physical state of metal (and other materials) and even the temper of the metal. It would appear that they could all be loosely grouped under the heading of annealing :)

I have tried Home freezing but it seems to be a temporary annealing or have you found a way that it is permanent? :)
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