Burning In

Only if you qualify it. Xmas is not over for 2020 and beyond. :stuck_out_tongue_winking_eye:

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Only 366 days until Christmas…

I hope you’re not advocating that it be closed, as, after all, whilst it has gone way beyond your intended purpose it has provided a forum for discussion of this phenomenon: The name of the thread may help keep that discussion here reducing this particular aspect of content that might otherwise distract in other threads.

I do have photos taken from an airplane which show some curvature. But I don’t need that. There are plenty of experiments that show the roundness of the earth without going to those lengths. Even the ancient Greeks knew of these experiments and performed them. And they are quite simple.

If there are people other than primitive tribes unconnected with modern life that truly think the world is flat, I wonder how they think satellites work, or do they deny their existence, while watching satelliteTV (and using using internet etc).

But that is a bit outside tge scope of burning in!

Satellites for TV are geosynchronous. They just hang up there in the sky, motionless. :stuck_out_tongue_winking_eye:

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Held there by magical force, no doubt!

Aristotle - when he wasn’t on the bottle - explained that satellites, planitessimals, bollides, moons and stars moved across the surface of a crystal sphere or three.

That theory lasted a millennium and a half, until some annoying fellow decided to test whether the human sphere was not the centre of the universe.

In high-end systems subjective response is always what ultimately rules the listeners experience .iIMHO

My 2Cs worth in respect of ethernet (or indeed any types of) cable, electronic switches and ‘burn-in’ from a completely personal and subjective perspective.

I have never experienced the effect of constant SQ improvement over time that could be attributed to the effect of ‘burn-in’ of any of the above components. What I have experienced is a subtle (and very occasionally not so subtle) fluctuation in my perception of the sound quality of my system from day to day. In my opinion, this has absolutely nothing to do with ‘burn-in’, but potentially attributable to a myriad of other factors such as how I feel on a particular day, the quality of mains power supply on the day or many other variable factors affecting my local listening environment.

I suspect (just my personal opinion) that what some people attribute to ‘burn-in’ (especially if perceived) SQ does not improve continuously) is related to one of the above variables.

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I get that variation in my enjoyment of the system each day, depending on my mood, the weather, stress etc.

I think everyone does, cause we’re humans.

Burn in is a different thing.

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Just was asking myself if there is also something as too burned in…, or in other words is the sound of cables going to deteriorate after long usage of the cable ?

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I bought an expensive Chord two phono to DIN interconnect a while ago. Straight from the box it sounded a bit strained, but over a period of a few weeks it began to really settle in and sounded much better.

I was pleased with the obvious improvement over the standard cable, so I bought an identical Chord cable to go between another source. To hear the contrast between the old, nicely run-in cable and a brand new, identical one, I popped the latter in place of the former. Couldn’t hear any difference at all.

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Yes, all cables and boxes will change every day and will gradually (or suddenly) disintegrate and eventually fail.

(That applies to listeners too of course!)

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We do indeed all end up back in the box for a burnin’.

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Perhaps we can also order those type of boxes with the green logo :-)…, but seriously hope to be very long away from that type of a box…

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I hope to be recycled and come back as a cable lifter…

And the same side of the moon always faces the earth.
How does that really work…?

That’s even weirder than burning in…

Because the moon’s axial rotation period is the same as its orbital period.

Many are in an equatorial geosync orbit known as geostationary. And they are not quite motionless, drifting over time and requiring thrusters to bring them back.

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