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In Reply to: RE: "our ears adjust to normalize what's being heard" posted by genungo on October 03, 2016 at 03:38:20
Last time I had to complain after 6 weeks of crap, The dealer etc still saying: "give it a chance, it is not burned in"
They can blow that out their collective arse.. LOL
I think what they really wanted was for me to just give up and get used to it. Cynical? You bet.
That is my take on it. They say, "Oh no... we just think you should give it a chance, it will be OK" while they are thinking: "Until the day Hell freezes over, and we want to to keep trying at least that long"
For m, anything that sounds bad right off is not worth bothering with. And if I 'miss out' on some great gear, no problem.. There are thousands of products which do NOT suck the first month or two.
I guess I am ranting...
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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
Sure. Initial "break-in" matters, sometimes. "Warm-up" time also matters, sometimes.But at other times (specifically, when a component contributes to an essentially different kind of tonal balance than the kind we've become used to hearing), I suspect that the "burn-in" period has as more to do with adjustments in the brain/nerve system than with electrical/mechanical adjustments in the sound system.
After a while you can become pretty good at figuring out which thing is which... I think.
Edits: 10/03/16
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