Burn In = Voodoo?


I have been an obsessive and enthusiastic audiophile for 20 years, I am not averse to tweaking and The Audio Critic infuriates me. However, I must admit I get a little uncomfortable reading so many posts about "burn in". While I understand that amps may need to warm up, speaker components may need to loosen up, the idea of burning in a cable or say, an SACD player just seems ludicrous to me. Unless of course, the party suggesting the burn in is a snake oil equipment peddlar and needs to make sure someone owns and uses your product for a couple of months before they decide it's really no good. At that point, of course, no one could actually remember what it sounded like in the first place and even if you wanted to return it, it would be too late. Am I being too cynical here?
cwlondon

Showing 2 responses by megasam

We have had many posts on this subject, there no doubt is improvement in cables and components after several days of break-in, in my experience. Another factor which is hard to measure is your hearing adjusting to the different sound of the new item, as you become more used to it, sounds better etc.

Trelja, please reveal this new CDP you bought......
Jim, call Cable Co about Audio Desk CD edge bevel machine.
They sell a special package of Audio Desk and Furutech RD-1 demagnitizer at reduced package price. If you buy duplicate
CDs you can send one to them and they will bevel & demag one
for you to compare. This is a fairly expensive tweak.

A word of caution, I will not use this even if it "seems" to
work now because it violates my golden rule about CD Tweaks:
NEVER APPLY A TWEAK THAT CAN'T BE REMOVED! Here is link to
Cable Co special for Audio Desk: www.fatwyre.com/newspecials.html