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In Reply to: Re: How long did it take for your Furutech duplex outlet to break-in? posted by audionutge@yahoo.com on May 6, 2007 at 01:22:02:
The metal parts in outlets are stamped from sheet stock, and the metal grain boundaries need to come to equilibrium with the bulk material within the grains following the strains of the sheet rolling and part stamping operations.The IEEE holds a conference each year called the International Reliability Physics Symposium. Electromigration has been known as a possible life-limiting failure mechanism for integrated circuits since the beginning of this conference series. The metal interconnect layers in integrated circuits are a long way from the heavy parts used in AC outlets, but the metal ions in each will still move around under the influence of moving charge carriers.
Cryo-treatment is widely reported to affect performance of AC outlets, and all this can do is relax the stresses from the strains of the forming operations. Doing this (or something like it, such as burn-in) will change the thermodynamic states of the grain boundaries relative to the bulk crystals within the grains.
This assumes the grain boundaries dominate the low-level conductivity behavior of the metal objects, and that this low-level behavior influences the performance of the audio equipment connected to the objects.
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- Electromigration, for one thing. - Al Sekela 13:54:35 05/06/07 (0)
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