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In Reply to: Don’t get all worked up - it's a valid question posted by Caymus on December 24, 2004 at 15:04:53:
*****With thousands of aging components in the equipment, why would the net effect always be an improvement instead of a degradation?*****Approaching the issue with your skepticism in mind shows the absurdity of the whole audiophile break-in nonsense.
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I've never seen any proof that "breaking in" electronics can help. On the other hand, I've never seen any proof it doesn't. Of course, it's pretty obvious that electronic gear will degrade eventually. In the world of musical instruments, violinists insist their instruments improve with age (again, no proof). I play the flute and piano, and in my experience, those instruments can only get worse over time, though I also offer no proof. (Some say a piano, no matter how well maintained, must be completely rebuilt every 75 years.)All I can say for sure: wine does improve with age (at least some wine and for a certain number of years). Beer does not. Happy holidays.
Speakers, of course, just like the catcher's glove, need to move freely.
Maybe eectrons can move "faster" once a pathway is worn through a circuit, in a particular piece of gear. But I'd appreciate someone translating that into why it would improve, as opposed to degrade sound, to do that? Maybe because the product is R&D'd with broken-in parts?
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