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In Reply to: Is burning-in real? posted by Scott Thomson on January 23, 2001 at 18:54:51:
But events over the past 9 months have really started to make me rethink this.In May, I upgraded my CD player. Upon receipt of the new player, I thought I noticed a change in the sonic signature after about 100 hours of play.
Note: when I say "thought", I mean I'm convinced I heard the phenomenon, but not convinced of my mind's contribution.
Then in October I bought a new preamp. Once again, I thought I heard a change after about 200 hours of play.
So I started to think that maybe there was something to burn-in.
Currently, I'm trying new cables in my system; after 30 hours, I'm noticing changes that are not subtle. These changes are not all positive. In fact, I plan on relistening to some of the initial CD's I played when I first installed the cables to determine to what extent the soundstage is collapsing-but I really think that it has lost some depth compared to the first couple of days.
So either my mind is playing pretty consistent tricks on me, or there is something to the theory.
I think that the phenomena of audiophools hearing burn-in is well documented. Now we have to decide between (at least) a couple of competing theories: (1) it's all in the subjects' heads, and (2) the gear in question goes through some change.
While (1) is attractive for simplicity's sake, please note that the simplest explanation for everything is that all of us, and all of our "reality", is nothing more than the figments of a powerful being.
As a side note, I find it interesting that you would "love to see" empirical evidence for burn-in. Why do we so readily revert to visual terms when discussing sound? Would you accept the evidence of your own ears, or does it have to be seen?
The little voices told me that soap is the hallmark of civilization.
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