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Interconnects matter ..Do the interconnects improve with time .. burnin ??

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G.D.T.R.F.B. said:
You’ve either proven it to yourself (whatever your personal belief in interconnects is) and are good or you haven’t. Or you dont care, not a bad belief to have IMHO. Glad I’m good. It was not always this way. And I am fully confident that I have done more interconnect testing/comparisons than 99% of the people on here. Used to be fully obsessed with high dollar interconnects back when I recorded and constantly upgraded interconnects/mic cables over my 500+ masters. Lots of cable comparisons recording my stereo as well. All that stuff (Harmonic Tech single crystal, Audiotruth Lapisx3, etc) is long gone. Most of my interconnects these days are homemade with old bulk/spool Audioquest 75 Ohm Mac3-1 coax cable, though I did just get an 8’ basic blue jeans set of RCAs. That is good enough for me. As far as do cables burn in? My 0.02? NO! Thus the term psychoacoustics. :lurk:
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Yes..
But ya never quite fell back to garden variety 5$ interconnects and lamp wire did ya ??
Cables do matter ... devil's in the details ..
 
Pics just taken. In the TT setup, am using 2 different speaker cables of different lengths as well. One (green) is whatever lamp cord that may even be 14 guage, and the other (blue) is Scosche 16 gauge that I got a 50’ spool of at wally world for about $10 in the car stereo section. Note the $5 interconnects.

Then there is my basement setup. Accurian tone controls and balance bypassed. This is probably whatever 18 gauge that came on whatever Sony BOTL BPC from 2003 or something like that. This setup uses better interconnects, homemade jobbies made from the cable that came off an old audio alchemy dacman dac. Tara though, and Tara has known their metals for a while now. Looks like I even cut the outer housing too short on one. Oops.

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E-Stat said:
The very best cables in my experience have the lowest values of C and L providing a much closer to ideal EDC.
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I agree low C and L are very important. I witnessed a amplifier go into oscillation and go up in smoke from a set of water hose sized speaker cables must be 20 years ago or so now. At least it was at the dealers showroom that it happened at needless to say the potential customer passed on them. I don't recall what brand they were.
 
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