magiccarpetride;618316 Wrote: 
> A question popped into my head today: if indeed audio component burn-in
> is a verifiable (or, close to verifiable) fact (as many claim), how is
> it that used components are cheaper than the new ones? Shouldn't it be
> the other way around?
> 
> The way I look at it, time is money, and also time is one commodity
> that is very hard to buy. So if I'm willing to pay $x.xx dollars for a
> spanking brand new component, and then be expected to invest yyy hours
> of burn-in, shouldn't the already burnt-in component be worth $x.xx +
> $yyy?
> 
> Troll away!

Yeah, you'd think, right?  I should try that the next time a trade in a
car - "well burned in/high mileage...potato/potaato" :-).

It's bad enough that consumers go on about burn in, but the
manufacturers jump on the band wagon too.  I see this with a lot with
headphone equipment (amps and headphones).  Ugh!  Though, as you can
see from my post above, I wonder about speaker and headphone break in.


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