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2003: audiodharma Cable Cooker

Posted by Luminator on November 29, 2015 at 11:35:55:

The audiophile who sent me this original XLO Reference Type 1 interconnect claims that it has been in use since 1993. Musically, what is one album which ended 1993? Joe Satriani's double-album, Time Machine. In hopes of burning-in audio products, we'd put these CDs on infinite repeat.
Time Machine includes the killer rock instrumental, "Speed Of Light." Why it was left off of Satriani's otherwise very good 1992 album, The Extremist, is beyond explanation. I think it was one late afternoon in early 1994, while I was practicing bowling at San Francisco's Japantown Bowl, before league. We snuck in Time Machine, and when "Speed Of Light" came on, this girl, V-Lo, put her hands on back of the seat behind the scoring console. She just shook her butt side-to-side, and ROCKED!
Anyway, when my colleagues purchased an audiodharma Cable Cooker in 2003, we had a dozen 1-meter Kimber PBJ interconnects, some of which had been in use since, you guessed it, 1993.
Conclusion: no matter how long a cable has been in regular use, it is NOT burned-in. For that, you need a proper cable burn-in device, such as the audiodharma Cable Cooker.
That XLO Ref Type 1 above has been in use for 22 years. And for over 2 decades, it has only been operating at a fraction of its true potential. 3-4 days on the Cable Cooker will unlocked that potential.
If I have not used a cable burn-in device, I am not at liberty to comment about a cable's sonics.
-Lummy The Loch Monster