I believe you. SME tables have this in manual. Bearing's need time to run in. And we're not even talking the electrical stuff with the internal tonearm wires that we all know help...
New turntable break-in?
Everyone talks about the 'burn-in' time required for:-
Cartridges
Cables
Valves
Amps
Speakers
I've never heard anyone talk about the 'burn-in' required for turntables?
Here is a complex electro-mechanical device that spins on a bearing.
If ANY component should have a 'break-in' period, I would have thought the turntable was a sitter?
The reason I'm bringing this up is that I've had my new Raven AC for a month now, and every day the sound changes.....it gets BETTER.
When I first set it up, it sounded positively awful....no bass, no transparency, no soundstage.....in fact it sounded like the speakers were wired out-of-phase.
Every day that passes, it responds to more tweaking of the arm/cartridge combination (alignment, VTA, VTF etc) and the bass, depth and soundstage become more and ever more satisfying.
In fact, I don't yet know when it will stop?
Has anyone else experienced this phenomenon?...and if so, why is it not mentioned in the audio reviews?
Cartridges
Cables
Valves
Amps
Speakers
I've never heard anyone talk about the 'burn-in' required for turntables?
Here is a complex electro-mechanical device that spins on a bearing.
If ANY component should have a 'break-in' period, I would have thought the turntable was a sitter?
The reason I'm bringing this up is that I've had my new Raven AC for a month now, and every day the sound changes.....it gets BETTER.
When I first set it up, it sounded positively awful....no bass, no transparency, no soundstage.....in fact it sounded like the speakers were wired out-of-phase.
Every day that passes, it responds to more tweaking of the arm/cartridge combination (alignment, VTA, VTF etc) and the bass, depth and soundstage become more and ever more satisfying.
In fact, I don't yet know when it will stop?
Has anyone else experienced this phenomenon?...and if so, why is it not mentioned in the audio reviews?