tomjtx wrote: > tyler_durden;149611 Wrote: >> Which is more likely to be "breaking-in", the device or your mind? >> My money is on YOU. > > There is a break in time for fine classical guitars and spruce tops > take much longer than cedar tops to break in....at least a year or > more. Speakers also clearly have a break in period. Granted, these > are mechanical devices with moving parts.
Mechanical things have real break in times, but they are usually a lot shorter than people expect. An automobile could take a thousand miles, but racing car motors are broken in within a mile or so. Drag racing motors only live for four seconds or so, from rebuild to rebuild. Hammocks require serious break in time. > An electronic component ,cold, out of the box seems to change within > the 1st hour. Some claim that it will change in the 1st several 100 > hours. Is there "science" behind that belief or only subjective and > highly susceptible opinion? There is accepted science that capacitors take a while to "form up". I think the time is accurately measured in charge/discharge cycles, rather than minutes. Folks rebuilding old radios use variable voltage sources to slowly apply AC voltage over minutes. There is also accepted management science about buyer's remorse. I expect that most of the 'break-in' time associated with audiophile stuff is really overcoming the buyer's remorse. That a solid state amplifier would sound significantly better after 100 hours of operation is hard for me to believe from an engineering view. And if it was real, an audiophile would reasonably expect that the manufacturer make 100 hours of playing music be part of the manufacturing line process for amps costing as much as a car. -- Pat http://www.pfarrell.com/music/slimserver/slimsoftware.html _______________________________________________ audiophiles mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/audiophiles
