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Posted by saros141 on November 5, 2002 at 23:31:47

I've read some claims here that silver takes a long while to break in sonically, in some cases hundreds of hours for the strident highs to start to sound airy and the mids to bloom.

If one were wiring a component with new silver wire, would it do any good to use a small battery to burn in each length first? By this I mean, say you are about to install a four inch piece of 19AWG 4n silver wire. You take a small 1.5V battery like a AAA and make a closed circuit with the wire, paying close attention that the wire does not overheat by opening and closing the circuit. Then you install the wire oriented such that the end which was touching negative on the battery is 'upstream' electrically from the end which contacted positive, because this was the direction of electron flow in the burn-in and the wire has been 'taught' to conduct that way...

Somebody must have tried this already... what did you find out? Could this possibly help to shorten the break-in period for silver wire? I'm aware of downsides (like cooking the insulation for instance), and of course it's quite possible that it would make no difference whatsoever, but I'd be interested to hear anyone's experience and/or explanations for why it might work, or why it's a bad idea. Feel free to share superior methods...

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