magiccarpetride;618517 Wrote: > There is an exception to what you've enlisted above -- audiophiles are > not the only ones affected by the burn-in woes. I'm a musician, and I > know that for guys like myself, guitars are the nasty bitches that need > plenty of burn-in. A spanking brand new guitar, no matter how > fabuloutasic is sounds right out of the case, will only improve its > sound the longer you play it. > > Urban myth? I personally don't think so. As one guy said, I'm with > Monkees on this one -- I'm a believer. I've had many guitars in my > life, and I can testify that all of those guitars tended to really > improve and bloom with prolonged playing. > > Guitars NEED to be played. That's why I willingly limit myself to > always have only a few select guitars in my house, so that I can afford > to give them the much deserved attention. If I find the guitar sitting > on a stand for months on end, I sell it -- it needs a new home, a pair > of greedy hands to mess with it each and every day. Each and every > guitar needs to be caressed daily (can you tell that I'm a guitar > nutcase?) > > I reckon same is with other products built out of wood, such as > speakers -- they NEED to be played, and the longer you play them, the > vibrations travelling through the wood encasement tend to make them > sound sweeter. > > That's my bed time story for you, children.
There's plenty of guitar players on this forum - including me - and I think we'd all agree that GOOD guitars improve with age and playing - lots of playing... But this has zippo to do with "burn in". Guitars are mechanical. The timbers age and mature - they change. Electronics don't age in the same GOOD way - they only age in a bad way...eventually. So I agree with what you say, but it's NOT burn-in as discussed in the context of "these cables sound a bit rough at first, but give them 200 hours and a veil will lift..." -- Phil Leigh You want to see the signal path BEFORE it gets onto a CD/vinyl...it ain't what you'd call minimal... Touch(wired/XP) - Audiolense 3.3/2.0+INGUZ DRC - MF M1 DAC - Linn 5103 - full Aktiv 5.1 system (6x LK140's, ESPEK/TRIKAN/KATAN/SEIZMIK 10.5), Pekin Tuner, Townsend Supertweeters, Blue Jeans Belden Digital,Kimber 8TC Speaker & Chord Signature Plus Interconnect cables Stax4070+SRM7/II phones Kitchen Boom, Outdoors: SB Radio, Harmony One remote for everything. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Phil Leigh's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=85 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=86359 _______________________________________________ audiophiles mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/audiophiles
