Audioquest Sky XLR

I think all pieces of the audio puzzle need time to break in. That being said I'm a believer that if the cable or etc. is going to work within the system as a whole that it will be evident to the user in a few days or less. IMO with cables when new can sound bright or have some glare that will fade with time. But if its to the point of annoyance then its probably not going to transform with time. I do have silver ICs like your sky, (wild blue yonder), they have aged well but sounded fantastic initially. I do think that the preamp to amp ICs take longer to break in than source to preamp. If this is your scenario you could switch to a constant high level source signal (cdp) to speed up the process.

I forgot it, but they perform well :-)

This is one great piece of cable.

Gentlemen, could you elaborate a little more on some (if any) of the changes I could expect as these break-in!

Mred, honestly, normally it would be easy to write the usual "more
headroom, deeper soundstage, faster high frequencies, blacker blackness
between the notes..." but the Sky is in a way - or for me - a 'No-Wire' -->
a link without limitations or colorations;.
Let's say after a while you will "feel" that something happened,
maybe a kind of more silence. Simply a cleaner connection between the units
which are connected with it.
Maybe this has to do with the DBS System, who knows. I "tuned"
them up to 144V per Channel, but the biggest sonic jump is from 36V to 72V.
Hard to describe, you have to hear it, no grain..like Stringreen wrote...a great
piece of cable indeed. Maybe they made more right than other manufacturers.