P Floding;151366 Wrote: > What do you mean by dielectric "forming"? > It is there, all right. > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dielectric
I don't understand your post. Are you asking me a question? I was quoting Jenks: Jenks Wrote: > > ... > I think the main reason is dialectrics in cables and capacitors forming > slowly, but that is at best just an informed guess. > ... > and pointing out that no such process happens. SoftwireEngineer Wrote: > > I was talking to a cable manufacturer's brother who joined the business > after quitting software. He said, 'Oh man..this business is so weird, > the interconnect will sound different when we change the number of > twists'. This is perfectly easy to understand. When you change the number of twists, you change the capacitance, which will have some effect on the frequency response and hence what you hear (might be negligible, but if you add enough twists it will not be). Such a change is much, much larger than any change due to "burn-in" (if there is even any such effect at all). In other words every time you nudge your interconnects or speaker cables and change their geometry you are making a much bigger change than running current through them for hundreds of hours. Actually some expensive cables test much worse than cheap ones (I can dig up the reference if necessary), as apparently some manufacturers don't understand even basic electronics. As for oxidation on contacts, certainly this happens, but it's not what audiophiles mean when they talk about burn-in (as far as I can understand at least), and it's certainly not a change for the better. -- opaqueice ------------------------------------------------------------------------ opaqueice's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=4234 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=29025 _______________________________________________ audiophiles mailing list audiophiles@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/audiophiles
