Break in time is the time that it takes for your brain to replace the
old sound with the new sound as its standard. If you switched back to
your old setup after breaking in the new, you would have to adjust to
that all over again, but you would not think of it as break in.
Switching back to the ("already broken in") new stuff again would be an
eye opener, because you already know its broken in, but the sound would
keep improving each day as your mind readjusts to the new environment,
just as it did the first time!
The adjustment process is called homeostasis and it applies to every
function of body and mind, allowing us to adapt to any environment -
slowly.
Warm up does effect the sound, a lot more with tube electronics which
rely on high heat to do their job. As a tube heats up, it has to fill
all heat sinks nearby before it reaches its stable condition, the state
in which the unit was tuned to sound best. Since tube electronics
usually have big step up transformers and steel boxes which suck up
lots of heat until they reach stable temp.
Rich
Happy Birdday in advance!
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