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Originally Posted by Bavarian05
My experience has taught me that break in is absolutely real.
Not all devices, but many with high quality capacitors definitely seem to sound uptight and unforgiving at first, can dramatically settle down and offer much improved dynamics after a good 50-100 hours. My previous ARC Reference gear was a prime example. It honestly sounded confused for lack of a better word for the first few hundred hours and eventually came into its own after a good 300-450 hours. It seemed to go through bizarre stages.
Not so sure about transistors, but I do believe in wire dielectric and capacitor run in.
Just my two cents...
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Don't want to start another version of "wire wars" but it seems like this possible effect is testable. I guess that I'm "jaded" by my previous vocation; "experience", "common sense", etc. were/are often proven to be wrong by "science" which is also a moving target, etc., etc. :>)
(with additional thought, I guess the final arbitrator for this "hobby" is the "psycho-physiology" of the end user rather than physics)
Steve