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RE: Saving 2+ years of phono cable break in.

Posted by stehno (M) on January 23, 2015 at 01:04:57

In Reply to: Saving 2+ years of phono cable break in. posted by JerryS on January 16, 2015 at 13:17:20:

I'm skeptical of your theory. Unless cable burn-in behavior and times change dratically at the mV level or at some very low voltage level approaching zero.

Here's why. In my limited experience:

o A power cables takes roughly 5 1/2 days or 132 hours to fully burn in +- 1/2 day.

o An interconnect whether single-ended 2V or balanced 4V, takes roughly 5 1/2 days or 132 hours to fully burn in +- 1/2 day.

o A simple-constructed audio part e.g. plugs, IEC connectors and inlets, fuses (regarless of volts or amps), outlets, etc. all take roughly 53 hours +- 1 hour.

o Speaker cables usually 7 - 8 days. I speculate based on their construction and/or materials.

o Complex components - usually 150 - 275 hours, depending on complexity I speculate.

So if I compare the burn in times of a 1M pair of ic's drawing say 4 volts with my limited experiences of 6ft. power cables drawing 120 volts, I see a whole lot more similarities than I do differences.

But again, maybe at some magic number below say 1V, burn-in behaviors are drastically extended.

Edits: 01/23/15

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