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In Reply to: RE: More On The Rega Saturn (w/Upgraded Power Cord) posted by AnalogJ on March 20, 2012 at 16:29:33
"I'm not an engineer, but I have always heard this break-in factor. I walk into my closest audio emporium and I can always tell when a piece of equipment is new. I don't get to go in all that often, but I hear the tightness and lack of bloom. "
Don't be hard on yourself - I am an engineer and while I do notice differences during a break in period, I have no idea precisely WHY. I am pretty sure others do too, but don't know the mechanism - though I have heard it is dielectrics purging themselves of impurities of electron holes ... and others say that the sound doesn't change at all, and it is all in our imaginations.
To while I reply with a smile "Placebo or not, I don't care as long as it works!" :)
Glad your Saturn is doing better for you!!
I also find that the stereo system sounds better at night - and depending upon recording, mood, etc ... the record player, SB feeding a DAC or Computer feeding DAC will be better than the others. Since I am there to enjoy music - I just take extra enjoyment when everything works out just right.
"Knowledge is knowing that a tomato is a fruit. Wisdom is knowing not to put it in a fruit salad"
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It may have been caused by a change in personal perception which is experienced by everyone to a certain extent.
Your assertion may or may not be true, but if it was just personal perception, then my usefulness (not to mention the money spent) in training my ears would have been for naught. If someone like Zubin Mehta's ears were only good for his own shifting perceptions from moment to moment, his vocal and physical promptings would have no prompting. So I don't buy your assertion as though that's all there is.
The startling thing is that I heard a shift that Monday afternoon in the room next door, about 10 feet away from the speakers. This wasn't just leaving and coming back to it later in the day. As I have mentioned, I have played in and conducted orchestras. I have sung in choral groups and in Manhattan Transfer type groups. I can pick out harmonies a mile away (that's a dramatization). If you don't hear it, then you don't hear it. It doesn't mean that it's not there to be heard.
Then I agree that a change in perception is just a minor factor. I experienced about the same phenomenon yesterday when I invited an audiophile friend to test an I/C cable. Every other cable I connected in place of the one under review lost intimacy, air and the "feel" of the music.
I initially thought that I was influenced by a changed perception, but then I realized that it was the matter of synergy.
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