Dear @decooney : It’s not that I don’t believe those manufacturers and the other tube owners. The issue for all of you is something that I posted and you still just do not comprenhed or has a heavy misunderstood. 100 hours or 200 hours the subject just does not change:
" after 300 hours to began to listen those caps your tube electronics surely sounds different but not because the caps are " formed " ( this is false ) but because those tubes changed a little or to much its quality performance levels and the other thing is that your memory after 300 hundred hours almost fail/fall completely to trust on i t. "
Even your mood levels after those hours is different as is the electric power " contamination ". Maybe the SPL after those hour in this late listening session be a little dfferent than in the first listening session when you just changed the caps.
Exist several reasons why all of yu think that after those hours " things " are better.
I don´t know from where those tube electronics manufacturers found out that " formed " about caps.
Is normal that in your electronics when you change those kind of caps the sound will change and change because the colorations/distortions between both caps are way different due that those kind of caps are to colored and not neutral passive devices. As I posted all of you are using those " caps " as a " tone control " where in reality exist no control but only different distortion levels.
I know and trust what that you are listening and report but not for the reason you named. This is the issue.
Got it?
R.