Skunk wrote: > My point was one of illustration, i.e. there is no proof the power > supply made the difference. To the engineer, however, I might ask: do > capacitors possess the ability to change, and how might that change > affect the reaction to transients in the device in question?
I'm not a EE, but I hire them. Short term, a capacitor is "fully formed" in a few thousand cycles, which if you feed 50 or 60 hZ AC, is just a few seconds. If you feed it high frequency audio, it will be fully formed in a second or so. Raise the value by a couple of orders of magnitude, and you are still not at a day. > My theory on break in time is that it is directly proportional to the > return period for components that may be feared not to live up to buyer > expectations initially. You can't have buyer's remourse if there is a > possibility for improvement... I believe that resolving buyer's remorse is the number one reason that the myth of electronic break in continues. Number two is that over time, your perceptions change. So rather than actually improving, you are just used to how it sounds. IMHO, YMMV, etc. Pat -- Pat Farrell http://www.pfarrell.com/ _______________________________________________ audiophiles mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/audiophiles
