Break In Question?

Burn in and consistency depends on the sum of inductors in the design and to somewhat the pcb track design.

The more expensive the design the more these things are likely.

The times involved long span are 9 months 3 weeks or 11 months 13 days for full tuning.

Computers are the worst.

@douglas_schroeder What is your position on amplifiers sound, especially class A that's freshly turned on vs 2 hr of warmup?

mylogic,

Not sure about tonearms, but cartridges for sure.

ozzy

My opinion is anything with a wire can require burn-in, this pretty much means everything in audio.

@samureyex ”….anything with a wire can require burn-in…..”

Ears to brain requires an array of wires of sorts. I suppose this supports those with theories that the brain (not the equipment) adjusts. That the brain is the true burn-in culprit, which tricks us into believing (over time) that the components in our systems are changing the perceived performance.

l think if people want to hear a difference, they may well listen in more detail and think they are hearing things they never noticed before. Our Hi-Fi systems are invariably courtesans, which hoodwink us into believing, what we want to believe.