Bluejean Cables #2

[Smokey]

So when you buy a new pair of shoes and get them broke in they will continue to change until they don't fit any more?

If a person is way overweight and fat, then yes

But joking aside, you really can not compare speaker (or shoe) break in with cable since one have dynamic nature while the other have static nature. So the same rule does not apply.

If there is break in on a cable, and I don't doubt some one because I haven't noticed it, then I would imagine it would follow the same pattern of anything requiring break in. It functions until certain normal parameters are met and that would be it.

That does seem like a common sense approach, but problem here is that “certain normal parameters” will never be met since the signal cable is carrying is AC which is always in state of change. So any cable parameters that is effected by the AC signal is also changing too.

For example, if cable get charged up like a capacitor during the upswing of signal, the charge will be dismissed during the downs section of signal.

Hypothetically, let's say a cable is A new and B at break in point, if you preferred a certain tonal balance between A and B, maybe you liked it not completely broke in, then your ideal balance would be lost, past up. At that point you would have to settle for what you have or search for a cable that is closer to your ideal response at final break in. You'd also have to ask yourself do the cables sound better in my system at break in than whatever I had prior.

Then hypothetically, cable manufacture should put a warning label on their cable that cable's sonic quality should be judged during break-in period, not after-since the end result might not be what they want.