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Experimentation

Posted by Luminator (A) on October 18, 2006 at 09:56:18

In Reply to: Re: Glad You Tried It - Cable cooking posted by solentgreen on October 17, 2006 at 23:49:17:

My colleagues and I acquire multiple sets of cables, and you know from your junior high experiments that you need one control group, and one variable group. So for Cooking cables, that means having one new, unused cable to compare the used and Cooked samples to.

But before you do that, you have to understand what a cable is supposed to do. For me and my colleagues, cables have two critical functions. (1) Pass signal with as little change as possible. (2) Protect from outside interference. After these, we're looking at ergonomics and aesthetics. How sturdy is the product? How stiff is it? How easy to use are the connectors? Does it attract dust? Does it taste yummy to cats and dogs? Does it disappear from sight? Is it easily kinked? Does it pull components off the shelf? Are all of the connections tight? Is it easy to trip over? Does it snag on carpet? And so on and so forth.

I've stated repeatedly that we've compared the sonics of Cooked cables versus un-Cooked samples. Over time, you will get a better feel for how much Cooking is optimal.

I don't care how many months or years I've been using my cables in the system. If they haven't been Cooked, I'm not hearing their full potential. Cable burn-in devices use signals which are of higher current and voltage. Their signal algorithms are also different from regular music.

I'm not going to spoil the ending by telling you what you should or should not hear and expect. Just be a responsible adult (unlike most audiophiles, who blindly slag events and products they've never had or tried), try a Cooker the way it was intended, then compare Cooked cables to un-Cooked cables. Then ask yourself, "Are there any changes?" If not, then you can forget about Cookers, and just enjoy your cables the way they are. If you do hear changes, then you have to identify what those changes are. Once you ID the changes, then you can begin asking whether those changes are positive, negative, or just a bunch of trade-offs.

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