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RE: One reason to be suspicious of dealers etc telling you: "wait, it is not burned in"

ARC is now recommending 500 Hours or so on solid state.

I've heard significant warm up effects with tube gear, within 45 minutes.

Also with caps I once had really odd surround-like effects while the new tweeter caps were breaking in. Like, I'd hear sounds behind my chair. However at the end of the break-in that disapeared but I felt the overal treble was better.

Still, there's so much charlatanism that I can totally understand skepticism.

Woofers however DO break-in. Measurements taken out of the box and after a couple of days running may be significantly different, especially in the resonant frequency. This is fairly well documented.

Best,

Erik


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