bullitt:Sorry this topic has caused heated debate, i only asked the question because i was told a directional hdmi cable was nonesense, just wanted to confirm one way or the other and im still none the wiser.
The thing about bedding in wires, wouldn't wires be better when new rather months or years later,as i thought you were suppose to trim your speaker wires every so often, if they had to bed in why would you need to do this ? unless its a bad connection ect..
Here's a quote I found from Chord.
Our research shows that this is not only dependent on the equipment the cable is used with but also on the type of music predominantly played. Should you wish to speed the burn in time appreciably, hard-core trance will produce quicker results than choral music!
http://www.chord.co.uk/chordweb/speaker_cable_tech.htm