Digital Audiophile;168425 Wrote: > Yes, there certainly are measurable differences after break/burn-in. > Again, I'm not saying one way or the other that I heard anything > different - that wasn't part of the test at all. The reason we focused > on audio cables was for a couple of reasons, they're readily available > and have unique compilations of materials. > > There are a few ways to measure it. Some straight-forward and others > take considerable effort. Current loading, tuning or bridging - all > accepted methods. We measureed capacitance to within .2 picofarads. > > As for tolerances, well keep in mind things work together and generally > burn-in together. It's much like a car engine - where the internal > parts generally break-in at a close pace. So regardless of the degree > of wear, things keep humming along. The degree of wear is relative.
It's not at all like a car engine. There are no moving parts (speakers excepted). I simply don't see how it's possible for the capacitance of a wire to change after you run some current through it. It can't have anything to do with temperature, because variations in room temperature are much larger than those caused by the current. Electrons flowing through metals have no effect on their structure, and if the insulator around the cable is breaking down after such a short time and under the modest audio-grade currents it's defective. So I really don't know what you could have measured. -- opaqueice ------------------------------------------------------------------------ opaqueice's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=4234 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=31311 _______________________________________________ audiophiles mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/audiophiles
