Burndies

I have been shown how to relax the Burndies. It will be difficult to describe, but this is my take on it. You need to flex them along their entire length, flexing back and forth. Then turn the cable through 90 degrees and repeat. Then take one end of the cable in each hand with the plugs orientated so that the wide key is at the 12 o’clock position. Then wiggle the cable by moving your arms about until you feel no significant twisting torque in your hands. (It might look like you’re doing the Birdy Song dance!)

See, I said it would be difficult to describe.

As someone who does just that, I know exactly what you mean. The key is to form them into the right shape before you plug them in, so there is no strain on the connection between wire and plug, and they will slide straight in. My suggestion to the OP is, if having done this means they still touch the wall, to move the rack further forward. I certainly wouldn’t try heating them into submission. 

Clive B posted:

(It might look like you’re doing the Birdy Song dance!)

Any advice for younger Naimers though, Clive?!

Good advice........I did take great care to try not to pre stress........ my issues is as the cable loops back on itself ... from psu to streamer - it just tends to kick a little .... not much .... in-fact I think given a little time it would just do it itself.....the old nap 500 burndies are perfect........ I will give it another go.......... I am certainly not going to put a 2000w hot air gun on it!!!!

Clive B posted:

I have been shown how to relax the Burndies. It will be difficult to describe, but this is my take on it. You need to flex them along their entire length, flexing back and forth. Then turn the cable through 90 degrees and repeat. Then take one end of the cable in each hand with the plugs orientated so that the wide key is at the 12 o’clock position. Then wiggle the cable by moving your arms about until you feel no significant twisting torque in your hands. (It might look like you’re doing the Birdy Song dance!)

See, I said it would be difficult to describe.

Post a video!

Bart posted:

Clive B posted:

I have been shown how to relax the Burndies. It will be difficult to describe, but this is my take on it. You need to flex them along their entire length, flexing back and forth. Then turn the cable through 90 degrees and repeat. Then take one end of the cable in each hand with the plugs orientated so that the wide key is at the 12 o’clock position. Then wiggle the cable by moving your arms about until you feel no significant twisting torque in your hands. (It might look like you’re doing the Birdy Song dance!)

See, I said it would be difficult to describe.

Post a video!

Even if I could find a video hosting site and link to it successfully, please be assured that I have no wish to leave a video on-line which might invite a visit from the men in white coats! 

The easy part is to find video hosting site. There is one very popular that every one knows. I use it sometimes when a device has problem and service people are far away from the place I live. I shoot a video  and upload it to this site so technicians can see the problem live...

Clive B posted:

Bart posted:

Clive B posted:

I have been shown how to relax the Burndies. It will be difficult to describe, but this is my take on it. You need to flex them along their entire length, flexing back and forth. Then turn the cable through 90 degrees and repeat. Then take one end of the cable in each hand with the plugs orientated so that the wide key is at the 12 o’clock position. Then wiggle the cable by moving your arms about until you feel no significant twisting torque in your hands. (It might look like you’re doing the Birdy Song dance!)

See, I said it would be difficult to describe.

Post a video!

Even if I could find a video hosting site and link to it successfully, please be assured that I have no wish to leave a video on-line which might invite a visit from the men in white coats! 

Worse, it's just the sort of thing to go viral.

Richieroo posted:

I was tempted to gently warm the burndy with a hair drier to relax it more so it can conform to a sensible shape ........ is it ok to heat the cables up a bit?..........any advice...

Well, if you believe the folks that swear a "cryogenically frozen cable" improves the sound miraculously, then I wouldn't.  Otherwise, I see no harm in it, provided you don't melt anything.............

Why is it verboten to have a Burndy, or for that matter any cable, touch the wall?

I'm sure I read on this forum in one of the set up guides....that it was bad news to allow burndies to touch the wall. One of mine only just touches....and everything appears to sound great...but hey I was doing my housekeeping checks....and found the dreaded touching burndy....

If the system is sounding a bit sharp up top I check my speaker cable hasn’t been pushed against the wall by the hoover, it often has been. When I first got my 500 I installed both boxes on adjacent bottom shelves of my Fraim stacks this laid both Burndys along the carpet next to the cable feeding my power block, I really wasn’t impressed by the 500 at all installed like that, a different matter once I’d moved the ps (and the 552 to get away from it) up in the stacks so the Burndys were clear.

I am in one stack due to severe space constraints ..... 500ps/552ps/555ps - 500dr/552dr/ND555 ...... it seems to work well. My rack is the Atacama Evoque SE .... with 40mm thick bamboo shelves ........ which seem to give some shielding.........

docmark posted:

Why is it verboten to have a Burndy, or for that matter any cable, touch the wall?

It seems to sound better when a cable is not touching the wall.  

docmark posted:

Why is it verboten to have a Burndy, or for that matter any cable, touch the wall?

???? Docmark,...This applies not only to Burndy,..all cables are affected by how they are placed.

Therefore,..”cabledressing" is so important.

/Peder ????

Just spent a short while removing all my Burndies and doing the ‘Birdie/Burndy’ Dance’ per the instructions. The ones on the NAP300 in particular looked like they needed a bit of flexing. On power up, immediate impressions were for more precision and refinement through the CDS3 from the off so it will be interesting to hear the results after a day or so of settling time.

Can you point me in the direction of the 'Burndy Dance'........thread   (I can't find one).........or describe the exact dance moves...

I followed the instructions per the second post in this thread - seemed to work quite well.

One thing I did noticed afterwards was that reconnecting the Burndy connectors took very little effort, they locked into place very quickly.

Another thing I did was move the NAP 300 PSU up a level on the RHS brawn rack so that there was a bit of vertical distance to the NAP 300 head unit on the left hand rack (at the bottom). 555PS is now at the bottom on the RHS.

Richieroo posted:

Can you point me in the direction of the 'Burndy Dance'........thread   (I can't find one).........or describe the exact dance moves...

It’s best to do it when no one else is looking, or even better when you’re alone!