@tooblue - yes, I forgot that, and I just got a new Hana Umami Red cart a couple of months ago, and it's still improving! Nice thing is that right out of the box it sounded better than my previous cart.
Love getting new equipment, hate the break-in
I get excited about new equipment but often get impatient with the break-in time. Some sound pretty good right from the get-go, others seem to take forever plus one day. Also, some gradually get better with time, others sound bad for a long time, like 200 hrs and then one day BOOM!, everything comes into focus seemingly all at once. Is your experience similar?
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@ghdprentice "went through the classic flip flop around 120 hours... very common with amps and preamps, where it sounds terrible one session and glorious the next a few times. Then kind of stabilized and slowly gets better." It reminds me when I was breaking in Pathos InPol integrated and after about 200hrs wanted to present its glorious sound to my wife. Well, it sounded awful, my wife looked me with WTF and I was dumbfounded. It took easily another 200hrs to shine and stabilize. |
When I bought my new Pass Labs monos, I was told there would be a five-day break in period. Fired it up and it sounded terrible, miserable and just could not recognize instrument or voices. Every morning I’d wake up only to find the same sound. I started to wonder if it would get out of this foggy state. Groundhog Day every day. On the 5th day while still in bed wondering if this miserable sound would still be there. Nope. Full glory. It all came together. The surprising part was it was not a day to day incremental improvement. It was the last 10-12 hours that it changed. Went from zero to 100 overnight. |
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