Break in period

Dopogue, Great observation and I think you're right on. On the Raysonic I had expectations based on the review in 6moons and that is what I focused on for the first couple of hours out of the box. Warm, less resolution, rolled highs. Yep. Then the next day I started listening to it critically and concluded that the reviewer was FOS and, at a minimum, the tubes were a terrible match, no 'breaking in' could fix this sound! Dull, bloated, poor resolution, etc.

I was wrong! I rolled a ton of tubes in the Raysonic and my other stuff trying to get what I expected in the first place. Many weeks later I went back to the same tubes in the Raysonic and its IMHO great, especially at the price! Ditto my Tylers, dammed near sent them back to Tyler!

And for flatearther's amoungst us, my listening was always with other broken in speakers and CDP's available for comparison so I was able to track the changes. You're intitled to your opinions and experiences, but they are not universal for a good reason.

Break-in implies a significant change in response with time. Is this something desirable in equipment designed with accuracy in mind? Obviously not.

I try to avoid equipment that changes response significantly over long periods of time (weeks, months).

>or better "the myth" of the "break in period<

I assure the break-in is not a myth. And if you had a system capable of resolivng it, you would find that most componenets benefit from this "myth".

Oz

Grab yourself a pair (maybe not all brands) of the various single driver speakers on the market and spend some time with them and then tell us break-in is a myth. I have heard some changes in sound that had me downright scratching my head from day to day. From sounding like a cheap transistor radio to an open window to the music. From screeching shrill highs to almost no bass response, to a closed in soundstage to shunted dynamics and so on. It is one wild ride that anyone who's experienced dreads every going through more than once. I would swear my system was broken, it sounded so bad, had me checking every cable, tube, cord etc...trying to find an answer.

No, no, no. I've heard that business about "getting adjusted to the sound," and it's nonsense

well, I'm glad your opinion is fact.