Q: What exactly is break or burn in time?

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Is 'burn' or 'break-in' time when it comes to electronics/speaker cables simply a psycho-acoustic phenomena or does something physical actually happen to make the sound 'better'?
I'm auditioning some anti-cable interconnects and speaker cables on my system (Magnepan MG12's, Jolida hybrid amp) and though a bit bright sounding, overall I am quite pleased.
But the literature accompanying them suggests a minimum of 200 and up to 500 hours of 'break-in' time.
Can someone help or at least offer their opinion?

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Topic - Q: What exactly is break or burn in time? - moveup 18:39:13 03/14/07 (5)

Re: Q: What exactly is break or burn in time? - SRMcGee 15:32:54 03/17/07 (0)

Re: Conditioning.... - alan m. kafton 09:08:26 03/15/07 (2)

Yep, that's it. - Jim Hagerman 00:09:43 03/18/07 (1)

Re: Yep, that's it. - alan m. kafton 16:23:13 03/18/07 (0)

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