BURNIN' IN THE CABLES

Neli finally found a happy spot to burn in new cables: hanging off the back of a DVD bookcase in the middle of the second listening room.

One of the problems is finding a place so the cables hang down naturally – twisting them up UNnaturally tends to affect the sonic qualities, seems to take them longer to relax when the finally get put into use.

Another problem is keeping them out of the way of foot traffic – stepping on the cables ain’t so good for them either.,.. not to mention tripping over them and sailing into the Walker turntable… or something…

Seems to work really well.

The cables, interconnects and speaker, have both ends connected to the burn-in device – which sends a number of signals through the cables, simulating music – but presumably at a very high volume with lots of dynamics and lots of frequencies. all in order to speed up the burn-in process by a factor of 10 or so.

We use the Nordost burn in device for our cables. There is a newer model that may now be available…

Unfortunately, we did not get to hear these new cables (the Nordost Frey) before we sent them out on audition… so us cats still have a big curiosity that needs scratching.