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In Reply to: Re: ZERO Cables posted by Paul Speltz on September 23, 2002 at 15:01:53:
Since the notion of a long break-in period for wires does not make sense to me, I contacted Paul and Max Kreifeldt to ask about the background of the long break-in period observed for the new Zero transformers. Paul replied that he heard this from Chris Ossanna (Audio Research's Field Service Manager), who is using a pair of the Zeros with the silver-plated copper leads, and who generalized it to any silver wire.Max replied to me that this is part of a larger pattern. Every time he looks into stories about how silver wire takes a long time to break in, it turns out to be silver-plated copper. His explanation, for which he does not claim scientific proof, is that the multiple frequency-dependent impedances present in this type of wire cause phase delays that require a lot of adaptation on the part of our hearing. In other words, it is a psychoacoustic phenomenon.
I don't find this very satisfying, but I've now exhausted the expertise I can call upon. In my limited experience, the silver-plated copper wire-based cable Mark likes (the military surplus stuff from Apex Electronics) is definitely inferior to Max's all-silver interconnect cable in a high-impedance application. Since Max's interconnects replaced those made up from the surplus cable, break-in of the surplus cable was not a factor. However, I've not made the comparison in the 600-ohm practice that Mark uses, nor have I used silver-plated copper wire in speaker cable. To me, the question is still open.
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- Re: CABLE BREAK-IN - Al Sekela 10:28:01 09/24/02 (1)
- Re: CABLE BREAK-IN - Lew 06:48:35 09/25/02 (0)
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