Neil McCauley
23-08-2017, 07:59
We get a new piece of audio gear and it sounds “stiff” unyielding and “new”. So we run it in and wait for a few weeks before passing final judgment.
The question is asked all the time: what is breaking in, the equipment or me? The analytical side of us wants to scoff at this idea while the emotional empirical side is convinced it’s real. Which is it?
I suppose the answer is both, to some extent, but completely dependent on what it is we’re talking about.
What’s interesting is when we can easily understand the mechanism of change we believe it both intellectually and emotionally.
Speakers, for example, actually are mechanically stiff and their surrounds need to be broken in. Phono cartridges, the same. We understand that anything mechanical needs break in time. Intellectually that makes sense to us and we accept it without question.
But what about something electronic?
We know that .....
Continues at http://www.hifianswers.com/2016/05/break-in-html/
The question is asked all the time: what is breaking in, the equipment or me? The analytical side of us wants to scoff at this idea while the emotional empirical side is convinced it’s real. Which is it?
I suppose the answer is both, to some extent, but completely dependent on what it is we’re talking about.
What’s interesting is when we can easily understand the mechanism of change we believe it both intellectually and emotionally.
Speakers, for example, actually are mechanically stiff and their surrounds need to be broken in. Phono cartridges, the same. We understand that anything mechanical needs break in time. Intellectually that makes sense to us and we accept it without question.
But what about something electronic?
We know that .....
Continues at http://www.hifianswers.com/2016/05/break-in-html/