Cable burn in

no fractions of a second? :grin:

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Stunning! What an amazing device. And heterodynes are in there, too. That’s got to be good. And driving electrons into the insulation. Wonderful. Oh, wait, doesn’t that involve a breakdown of the insulator? Does it now transmit electricity?

I think that he was being very approximate.

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I one asked the time from a nice lady in the train. She responded: “ it’s exactly 5 pm, 22 mn and 37 seconds “. I laughed.

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Was that when digital watches were new? :slight_smile:

The Vidar is actually the perfect device for blind-testing the claim

Naim has a cable slapping machine too don’t they? And apparently in A/B tests people were consistently preferring the slapped cables over non-slapped cables?

There’s a similar way as the Vidar to burn in a cable: you open it and shout very strongly inside it. It will stress all the particles, hunt the gas, and penetrate all its layers with the deep vibrations of the shouting.
And for free.

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yes and yes. Shaken, not slapped. Difference being, in the video the engineer said “we don’t know why, but A/B/X tests confirm it every time”. (And the hypothesis he preferred was mechanical flexibility and microphony, which is not so far-fetched)

Much better than making up pseudoscientific babble

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Even better if what you shout at it makes all sorts of false accusations against the cable - that’s bound to increase stress, it certainly would for me!

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…what about swearing at it?

Mmm

I smell a further marketing opportunity.

It’s not enough for one person to shout at the cable. The cable needs to be sung to by a choir, deploying a range of dynamics and covering a wide frequency range.

In 2001 I went to the opera in Verona. It was an unforgettable experience to see an opera performed in a nearly 2,000 year old Roman arena, performed if I recall correctly without amplification.

Line these cables up in the front row for the Slaves’ Chorus I reckon.

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Alternatively, you could just connect it to your system and let that do the work. Or not, depending on your viewpoint :slight_smile:

As my system is active, I have 3x 7.5m runs of Superlumina. Maybe I should upgrade to Nordost Odin 2. Would only cost £240,000. Better start saving…

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Exactly. We were just kidding with all that. However I believe in the burning cable process. Better let it simple as you said.

Considering that you could instead get a NAC S1 and three NAP S1 for 273,996 euros, the Nordost seems reasonably priced and an obvious choice

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Absolutely. Cable first is the rule.

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Ok. I have been thinking about this topic and trying to reason with the science behind it and the “everything can be measured” statements. Can someone please tell me why two crossovers, one made from very cheap components and one made from very high quality components will have the same values and will measure the same in terms of frequency response dispersion etc but WILL sound very different to the ear. More detail, greater sound stage and imaging etc. What measurements can pick up these differences? If you haven’t heard first hand the difference between cheap vs expensive crossover components please refrain from making assumptions.

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Crap, I forgot to slap my cables before installing them. Maybe I’ll tear down my hifi and take them to karate class tonight and let everyone have a go!

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There are a number of known factors such as dielectric absorption in capacitors, magnetostriction and magnetic hysteresis in inductors, and mechanical losses in both.

Yeah ok an Electron i am not up to date with atomic particles.
Working out a Resistance path would be physical no intelligence required.
I still think there is something in it and it is much more simple/practical than
the combined mass put about so far.
If you look back Nordost has a more involved reasoning than mine.
It may be more intellectually sound to you.
PS. The Fenchrooster is an additional input to this.