Sigma-X Cable Burn-In

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Dizzie

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I just installed a Sigma-X AES/EBU cable and one XLR cable. How long will I have to suffer the pain of burn-in? Do digital cables need burn-in like analog cables?
 
Dizzie said:
I just installed a Sigma-X AES/EBU cable and one XLR cable. How long will I have to suffer the pain of burn-in? Do digital cables need burn-in like analog cables?
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I've tried 15 different digital cables. They all needed burn in. I've found with all the gear and cables that come and go through here things sound their best between 300-400 hours. I would just put music on play while you're not listening to it and let it do its thing.
 
Enjoy the ride. Some cables (and some people! LOL) deal with break in better than others but I don’t worry too much about it; it’s par for the course.

I would expect at least a couple hundred hours.
 
Thanks for the discouraging information. ☹️ I am not going to run my tube equipment that many hours just for burn-in. Will the AES/EBU burn in if I leave just the server and DAC on with the server sending signals? That seems like it would work. My other DAC does not accept a balanced input so when I swap it in that would slow the AES/EBU burn in many more months. Both DACs have balanced outputs so each would burn in the XLR cable.
 
Dizzie said:
Thanks for the discouraging information. ☹️ I am not going to run my tube equipment that many hours just for burn-in. Will the AES/EBU burn in if I leave just the server and DAC on with the server sending signals? That seems like it would work. My other DAC does not accept a balanced input so when I swap it in that would slow the AES/EBU burn in many more months. Both DACs have balanced outputs so each would burn in the XLR cable.
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You can just leave your Server and DAC on so long as signal is going though the new cable. You'll be totally fine that way.

And I agree with about saving the tube gear!
 
Dizzie said:
I just installed a Sigma-X AES/EBU cable and one XLR cable. How long will I have to suffer the pain of burn-in? Do digital cables need burn-in like analog cables?
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Suffering pain? They should be pretty good to begin with. If not, something else is probably wrong.
 
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