In Reply to: RE: Nobody here ever said tubes don't need break in. (nt) posted by morricab on August 21, 2015 at 15:20:15:
It's a matter of scale. The internals of a tube are many times hotter than a functioning transformer ever gets. Also the metallurgy of the tube elements are directly producing and manipulating the electron flow.
There are volumes of data on tube break in and aging over the past 100 years. And that information has been certified as well.
There is no such formal information on transformer break-in as it relates to audio sonics. And audio transformers have been around for 100 years as well.
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