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In Reply to: "Your Mileage May Vary"..... posted by Todd Krieger on November 9, 2006 at 21:49:19:
In my pre 0.47uf teflon V-Cap took 700(!!!) hours for initial break-in(and these 700 hours pre was completely unlistenable) and after that they changed considerably in another 500 hours. But after the hell you go straight to Nirvana. It's very hard to imagine something can sound even better. And it transforms your gear to altogether another thing.
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I know someone who claims he went over 500 hours with a pricy Teflon cap, and ultimately lost faith that it would ever sound right.... He admitted having delusions that it was about to be something special, but then when others would listen, reality crept in.....I've personally made such claims in the past, but in retrospect, it turned out to be wishful thinking. Live and learn.
I have never heard a product, be it an audio component, loudspeaker, or electronics device, that to me sounded awful at the outset and then sounded great later. (The only products I've heard improve to any appreciable degree with break-in is loudspeakers. But still never really liked a speaker that I thought was mediocre at first listen.)
Although I have had a few experiences in the opposite direction, where I thought it was great at first but couldn't live with it later. Most notably with non-oversampling DACs and a few speakers. (You'll find some of my initial raves here on the Asylum.)
I also never paid much attention to how many hours an audio component has logged. Save for phono cartridges.
"I have never heard a product, be it an audio component, loudspeaker, or electronics device, that to me sounded awful at the outset and then sounded great later. (The only products I've heard improve to any appreciable degree with break-in is loudspeakers. But still never really liked a speaker that I thought was mediocre at first listen.)"...
Methinks you're a true GEA who can hear subtleties about 99% of us can't. (Notice I did NOT write that those subtleties don't exist.)Enjoy your music, mm. :-)
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