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Why no “Break in” period?

If people say there’s a break in period for everything from Amps to cartridges to cables to basically everything... why is it with new power conditioners that people say they immediately notice “the floor drop away” etc.  Why no break in on that?

I’m not trying to be snarky - I’m genuinely asking.
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rodman99999
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Earlier: I posted, "I should have mentioned what a waste of keystrokes, I now believe it to be, to engage (a polite, scientific, term I’ve coined, for rock-headed individuals) and their blather."      Apparently, someone felt that was, "offensive to a member"(probably, because they couldn’t understand it) and deleted it, though the post addressed NO ONE, in particular.      Welcome to the CANCEL CULTURE.     Let me expand that, to ALL the blather, generated on this site, in general.      Is that more acceptable?
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millercarbon
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litho=stone
cephalic=head
lithocephalic=head full of rocks

Example: One way to come off as pretentious is to use big high falutin words like lithocephalic when plenty of words like dense, dull, dim, etc will do.
jl35
4,058 posts
 
also beware of anti-expectation bias, as you may prefer to not like it  so that you don't have to buy it...
prof
3,479 posts
 
@rodman99999

I suspect your post was deleted because the forum attempts to maintain a policy of encouraging conversation, rather than exchanges of insults.

So a post that is essentially comprised of insult, even if it doesn’t name the individual it is directed towards, is seen as counterproductive and such posts are discouraged by being deleted.

I dislike "cancel culture" as much as anyone, but I have no problem with a forum attempting to keep some level of decorum to promote productive conversations rather than trolling or insulting ones. When you are discouraged from resorting to ad hominem and insult, it encourages you (or should) to produce actual reasoned content and interact with the points made by other people.


If you have an idea that you can actually support through reason, argument, evidence, best to do that rather than through insult (or without adding insults).


I see millercarbon still can not resist the impulse for insult. That’s a shame.



prof
3,479 posts
 
jl35

also beware of anti-expectation bias, as you may prefer to not like it so that you don't have to buy it...


Yes, there are possible confounding factors one all sides too:  "I don't think there will be a sonic difference between A and B, so I won't pay attention enough to notice it."




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