You won't believe this one either, but if you disturb any burned in cable it will go through a very quick version of burn in. The effect is small but repeatable in tests I have done - removing the cable, coiling it up, uncoiling it and plugging it back in. I don't profess to understand it, but the listener subject, not knowing in which cycle it was done could often identify some change in the sound - mainly in the sound becoming a bit pinched and less spacious (the opposite of more open). I don't expect people to believe it because it is at first unbelievable, but I know a number of no-bullshit experienced audiophiles who find this uncontroversial. The effect in these circumstances is small. But removing a cable for a couple of weeks, replacing it with an identical cable for those two weeks, and then reinserting the original cable results in a burn in period of about two days - compared with a new cable wich can take more like two weeks (playing music for say 6 hours a day). I find it hard to understand how it can be the conductors and have played around with naked conductors and it does seem burn in is either not there or less pronounced, but haven't done enough experiments to verify that. I guess I didn't see how that knowledge would be useful.
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