Thank you for your kind words, Jjwa. I just needed to share my experience with you, as it truly is a feeling of absolute desparation.
As you already had a pair of these, you should have a ballpark idea on how they will sound. Whether or not the final result will be more to your liking than your last pair has yet to be determined. But, to experience truly bad sound is more than probably a result of things needing to break in. The fact that you are already beginning to hear the positive improvement shows that this phenomena is more than just the audiophile, not the component, breaking in.
Please let us know when the amps get a hundred hours, then a few hundred hours, on them, and tell us what your reactions are. We all become richer when you do this.
As you already had a pair of these, you should have a ballpark idea on how they will sound. Whether or not the final result will be more to your liking than your last pair has yet to be determined. But, to experience truly bad sound is more than probably a result of things needing to break in. The fact that you are already beginning to hear the positive improvement shows that this phenomena is more than just the audiophile, not the component, breaking in.
Please let us know when the amps get a hundred hours, then a few hundred hours, on them, and tell us what your reactions are. We all become richer when you do this.