crossover "break in" time? (Off Topic)

by MikeH , Tuesday, March 20, 2007, 03:27 (6247 days ago) @ Bert
edited by unknown, Tuesday, March 20, 2007, 03:34

Never thought about it deeply and personally not really of interest
because you can't do anything about that, in practise this is just the
case. I can make it worse for you though, wiring needs to burn/break in
too. A good test is to have an new interconnect burn/break in for some
time connected in a certain direction. If you turn the wire around after a
while (current flowing in the opposite direction) then the sound is very
much changed and for the worse!

Current travels in both directions because it is an AC signal so I think it might be something else. Most people love to drive the Ferrari, some people like to take it apart to see how it is made.

What you are experiencing might be the surfaces of the connectors settling in or even oxidising slightly. If this is the case swapping left and right at both ends will have the same difference in sound as if you turned it around. This may be why people like to hard-wire instead of having connectors everywhere.

If I could understand some of this I could do something about that.
A most interesting puzzle!

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