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Joseph Oberlander wrote:

Colin wrote:
(Nousaine) wrote in message
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"chris" wrote:

Hi I though it would be an interesting thread to start.

Burn in of speaker cables, how long for what dielectric. What's your
experiences?

Bare OFC 5N + PVC +48hrs
Bare OFC 4N + PE about 1 hour
ive not tried Silver+ Teflon yet (need an overdraft 1st)

My experience is that speakers do not burn-in and wires do not burn-in.
Unless
they're driven so hard they become fuses.

The only case of serious burn-in I've encountered was a melted cone and
seriously rubbing voice coil of a 6.5-inch woofer under EIA 426-B
conditions.

That ain't breaking -in it's breaking !!!

Couldn't this "break in" just be our own ears and brain getting use
too a new characteristic of the speakers or wires. I've heard that
speakers do break in though, the rubber and other material the makes
up the cone and connects the cone to the frame of the driver may
loosen up abit.

Right. For sepakers, though, it is maybe a day at most. More likely
an hour from new. Once the surrounds are softened up and it's working
properly, anything you still hear is defects.

Surrounds do not soften up. It is true that common spiders de-stiffen when
first used but that happens the first time the speaker is excercised, usually
at QC on the assembly line.

It is true that raw drivers when stored on their backs may need to recenter
(gravity effect) but this takes a few seconds at most; and how many people
store their towers on their backs

But your mind will filter
out all but the grossest inaccuracies given a week or two of adjustment
time.

Agreed.