"Steven Sullivan" wrote in message
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Wylie Williams wrote:

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You worked in audio for 22 years and you never bothered to
investigate *why* this extraordinary phenomenon might be occurring?

But break in is real
for everything in audio as far as I can tell, although it's not always
easy
to tell. The situation in a store let us listen and compare the same
music
on the same sets of speakers so often that we could easily tell changes.

Did you ever, even once, do the comparisons in a controlled fashion, in
all that time?


I am a wire break-in skeptic myself. In fact, I might extend that skepticism
to all solid state electronics. My local Radio Shack doesn't tell me to
break in my cellphone or TV remote control before using it.

I have two degrees in electrical engineering and I've never heard of
break-in periods for electronic devices (microprocessors, computers,
multimeters or microwave ovens). Yes, you do have break-in periods for
mechanical devices, but then a piece of wire has no moving parts
(disregarding those pesky electrons).

Until the contacts or the wire itself undergo some change in chemical
composition that would distill the sound in a different manner, the cable
should be broken in in about 0.0000000101010101010 seconds for a 10-ft pair.
And no amplifier current is going to change the chemistry of the wire in a
few hours.