Break in time that extends to months or maybe even years!!

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There once was a speaker vendor who claimed that the poor performance / review of his speaker was because inadequate time was given to break in the wire in the speaker, and it was very special wire that took >200 hours to break in.

The vendor of that wire said the speaker vendors claims were poppy-cock.

That wire vendor: George Cardas.

>>>Sadly, perhaps, he’s not the only well-known manufacturer who is a couple paradigm shifts behind the power curve. We see this all the time. Amplifier manufacturers are probably the worst. c’est la vie, as they say in Brooklyn.

Bob Crump got a little bit upset 😤 with the speaker dude in his and Curl’s system at CES when Bob found him soldering the connections for the new version of the tweeters.

I had a Brooks saddle that was still not broken in at 1,000 miles.
Unfortunately, Brooks did not believe it was their job to send me the saddle already broken in.
That really chapped my ass!  🚲

TRT teflons in crossovers, 200-300 hours. Bigger the cap longer the time. The guy used clusters to reduce breakin time.  Timing issues, sound came from everywhere, crazy sound.

Regards

+1almarg. No reason to doubt the person. What's interesting to me is to understand how the evaluation process was done. To know the amp was changing after that much time, it would also be necessary to know that nothing else in the complex system (cables, etc.) is changing and yet being attributed to the object of analysis. (I assume the other components are all stable, i.e., "burned in"?). And the room and other contributing environmental conditions (including power) are being controlled, too? Then there's the question of memory and linguistic description. Are notes being kept? Are the terms used in the notes precise? Etc.

What makes these kinds of issues tricky for me is that there is the sound of a precise, scientific approach, but there's either an irregular process or one that is not carefully documented. I've got nothing against shootin' the sh*t, but when it sounds like it's something else, I lose interest.