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In Reply to: RE: Cable cooking vs experiencing the process? personal choice? posted by Smelly_Socks on September 06, 2016 at 17:50:33
That's a good question.
For me, it all depends on what the cable sounds like when it's new. Some are quite listenable, if not anywhere close to their full glory. Some are just hard to listen to, and 1) my listening time is too limited to listen through the teething pains, and 2) I have an all tube system, so I'm not fond of burning tubes just to break in a cable. Those go on the cooker immediately.
If it doesn't sound obnoxious initially, I may listen to it as it fleshes out just out of interest. But it'll then get cooked anyway as it will get more fully burned in with a cooker than just playing it in the system. I have no objective evidence to substantiate this, but I have (on several occasions) put interconnects and power cords in the cooker that had many hundreds of (recent) system hours on them, and they sounded noticeably better after cooking for a couple days. Haven't ever done this with speaker cables though, so can't say if they would behave the same...
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Nearly the same experience here. No hard evidence, but I also believe a "cooker" takes an IC to a new level. Plus it allows you to "recondition" your IC's on a somewhat regular basis. I've always heard a nice improvement after the reconditioning process. An entry level cooker like the Hagerman Frybaby2 costs far less ($229) than most would spend on the latest "rave" IC.....only to never hear its true potential without a cooker being involved.
Very well stated, Mick....
Thx Alan. Aside from the sonic benefits, eliminating the normal tedious, time consuming break-in procedure alone makes the FryBaby (or similar) easily worth the investment. Saves a little wear and tear on equipment, tubes, etc. as well.
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