Recording From Vinyl To CD

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Mike, 

I can see where your poiunt is coming from and I would still agree with you, as this running-in is a bit pushing things to far for a stereo application

BUT

In my line of research, we go through ageing of materials (in NDT but also in destructive testing) and search their propency to keep their original properties (including resistivity, magnetic, embrittlement , microfracture propagation etc...) but we only do this for steels (ferritic , austenitic, martensitic stainless steels) and I can garantee you that the ageing (or running in) is definitely very important for proper operations at their nominal properties. But we are doing this in the framework of extreme conditions (Furnaces and power plants) and only on Iron-derivatives

(Olivier is fully right speaking of weld and I passed my safety consultant thesis on weld, so I know a thing or two about it and the preheat and cooling down are extremely important )

However, if those principles are correct for steel, there is ansolutely no reason why this should not be the case as well for copper or most metals. 

Why I say this solution of wire running-in being a bit pushed is that the wires operate at room temperatures and the heat generated from the operation of the stereo is rather negligeable (if the wires are not kept in bundles or coils in order to keep the stereo installation presentable. This attaching the cable is also stupid because it creates a capacitance effect which will ruin the good performance of the cable), and the cables are designed to generally work at 30% capacity of their full ability.

Where the real problem could happen and losses generated (and therefore heat generated) are at the connection points: the platted gold connectors are there to reduce the loss and thermal bridge effects. 