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SR BLACK UEF Outlet break-in and why you shouldntdo multiple tweaks at once.

I've recently had the good fortune of acquiring some more SR products, namely the powercell 8se with UEF black outlets and atmosphere 2.0 power cable , mig 2.0 to replace my Herbies tenderfeet for my source , UEF panels, which have yet to arrive, and a UEF outlet for the wall, which replaced a teslaplex se.

Now, The powercell came first, and I am  FLOORED at how much improvement this conditioner brought to my system.  From the initial fire up, it sounds absolutely stunning. It now has about 6 days of break in.  It was so good, I ordered the additional mentioned items, which came yesterday, minus the panels.

I properly replaced the the teslaplex se in the wall with the black UEF, and installed the mig 2.0's under the source and Played with both settings. The sound quality took a couple of steps backwards, from these two installations. Funny because, the powercell's UEF outlets never went through any "ugly" phase, but this black outlet in the wall, without any burn in, is just nowhere near what the burned in teslaplex se was. (Shocker 🙄) I guess, no judgement should be made until the outlet is broken in, and I shouldn't have even put the migs on until the outlet stabilizes.  

I guess my excitement got the best of me, and now I've disrupted the state of the system...it's going to be a long break in process, for sure.  

tweaking is definitely season-taste, season-taste.

anyone else have any similar experience? 

audiolover718
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folkfreak
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Definitely take out the MiGs and wait until the outlet settles. Personally I've never liked the effect of the MiGs in any place I've tried to use them, I found them to add an edgy/steely sound. 

I also had no problems burning in my Black outlets, they sounded good from the get go (replacing Tesla's as well) but others claim they need a long burn in -- probably best to plug an appliance in and leave it a few days
auxinput
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Yeah, I have had items that took 200+ hours to break in.  Many times, an item will sound wonderful for the first 2-3 hours, then it will start its ugly phase.  Sometimes this phase is really painful and it goes through several transitions where it might become very bright or distorted or warm/slow sounding or soft.  It just takes time.
auxinput
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If you keep all the items in place, you can burn them all in at the same time.  Then do judgements after 150-200 hours.  If you do one item at a time, it's another 150-200 hours for each item burn in. lol.
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