chebby:OK Clare, will do. As for running in... I will plug the Crimsons into the back of the TV and have them playing radio from Freeview all night into the amp (on zero volume). That will give them 12 hours or so with a signal going through them. Although this 'running-in' business - for cables - also stretches my credulity (as much as directionality) as someone with a scientific/technical/IT background. Turntables yes, cartridges yes, speakers certainly (all mechanical). However I will do it and hope no-one asks why.
A cable is also a physical item, and its structure changed by wear and tear. ofton the metal is bulk aligned but we have different needs from the surface of the wire to its core. HF tends to skip along the surface, and LF needs the entire core. This leaves the core and surface in different conditions. As you have an engineering background you may be interested in the subject of cryotreating. Taking metal from hot to cold a few times over. It ends up many times stronger as it realigns chemically. Likewise forged items are stronger than cast ones as casting leaves things out of order. Bedding in is changing the composition of whats there. It's still metal, but your making it shift into pattens that make electron swapping easyer.
Maybe i should of kept quiet 🙂
i would think your crimsons sound quieter as the sound is together still, not splattered out over longer time frames or sharpened up and firtigueing. In my own tests of £40-£80 cables using £300 components i found that every £5 increment led to a tameing of the treble that was like a reduction in volume but more so like shifting the tops down in frequency, giving a more natural focused sound but at the expense of... height? extension? i cant find the word. Cheaper sounded shriller and louder. This was about 12 years ago, so what you get at them price points are somewhat changed. non were silver, and they made maplins silver cable sound like it should of been hundreds. discontinued...
these gotham's are £15 delivered now. based on my findings back then there a waste of someones hifi.
that high street retailer 'cheapo sound' have a large bin of loan cables. You just leave a deposit and off you go. I reckon more people need to make use of this service as how else can you get half a dozen cables to play with at no cost in your own home. Perhaps you could enlarge your report chebby as a handfull of others would make your findings much more credable to any 'non believers'
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