I dont get the burn in thing....at least not with cables.
I do believe that there are obvious sonic differences between cable materials, but I say(after a lot of listening on my own to cables betwen 50.00 and 4,000.00) that any well crafted cable is just as good as another well crafted cable and that a LOT of Clever Marketing is taking place and luring people like sheep to slaughter.
Just a few months ago I had in my hands a pair of VdH cables, Luminous Audios Synchestra Line, Acoustic Zen silverlines, and my Mogamis/ and Todd R cables. Random others in the past year..
I am always looking for ways to squeeze that last bit of "sheen" from my recordings. and thought the differences between the super high priced cables and the Mogamis/ToddRs would be drastic.... not so. Actually , I heard hardly
any differences whatsoever in the silver "elite" cables and the DIY ones. Same for the Mogamis and VdH.. What gives? Yet I hear all these people making statements like: "The Heavens Gate amplifier has a sound all of its own ."the soundstage , LF immediacy, High-Mid charisma and depth of emotion of this piece makes your feet really move and your soul rejoice for a new tommorow". Right.
Im not listening through kmart speakers either. B+W nautilus 802s, Truth Audio TA-1Ps, bryston power amps, mytek DAC, etc.. So how much of this is real and how much is BS??If some of these reviews speak the truth, claiming differences to be as apparent as the nose on your face, how come I cant hear any differences??? How about professionals who say there is no difference?Surely all of our ears arent broken??
and if this audiophile stuff is true, how come more professionals dont buy into it?? why do they use Redco and canare instead of these other brands?? They certainly have the funds...
Will spending 3,000 dollars (or 4 in the case of one of the pairs I was trying) for some "boutique" wire give you that much(or any??) improvement over a 50-100 dollar one?? Will spending 1200 dollars on a "cable burner in-er" be a good investment??
I say heck no. And that any percieved differences would be purely mental...the mind associating super high prices with quality...Id rather spend that dough on microphones and preamps...rather than lining the pockets of some "boutique" corporation(of course greed doesnt exist in the "boutique" manufactruing realm)
I would really like to do some testing, but I have no idea how to render a "scientific" test as I normally just use my ears. To my knowledge there have not been any cable comparison tests here.
Psycho Acoustics is right.