Break-in ?
Not picking on Magico but I would think any company that is asking you to spend up the type of money they get for their products would do exactly that. Luxury products are high margin. Shouldn't it be something to expect from high end manufactures? Lower end products have thinner margins and rely more on volume sales. I wouldn't expect them to burn in their products but when your products carry a 5 or 6 figure price tag, why is it too much to ask? J.Chip |
Not to take sides on Magico. I have no idea whether they are any good or not, and even less idea whether they are good enough to represent good value for money. But I do know a couple things for sure. Besides the obvious, there's guys for whom break-in is word salad because they have no idea what they're talking about. One is really good speakers do not necessarily sound really good. The perfect speaker sounds like nothing at all. It sounds like whatever signal goes into it. That's the odds-on favorite, that Magico are indeed good speakers. People are hearing things they never knew was there. Are none to happy with it. And being normal human beings find it easier to shoot the messenger than deal with the message. There's a lot of that going around. Could almost call it epidemic. But any time I hear needs a thousand hours to sound good, my gut instinct is, because its crap. What that really means is you need a thousand hours to come to terms with the fact you got bought some crap. Cognitive dissonance takes over, and since the one thing you know for sure is you are an infallible genius incapable of such an enormous blunder then sure enough, thousand hours or so later, gee now all of a sudden its starting to sound good. Right. If it was me I'd give it an hour, maybe try again tomorrow, then admit defeat and move on. But that's me. The guy with the audiophile nirvana system. |
jchiappinelli OP Don't let the "snake oiler's" tell you electronic components need weeks, months, years, to "burn in" they don't most stuff has already been taken to operation temperature for a couple of hours to be "adjusted to spec" (bias, dc,etc etc) at the factory. Electrolytic capacitors take the longest, a couple of hours will see them "properly polarized" if not they are dud caps. If the those components took months and years to "burn in" then the factory "adjusted to specs" figures will be out to blazes and need readjusting, when you "burn in" for a few months. The only components in audio systems that "really" needs "burning in" (I think "bedding in" is a better term) and will sound different are the "mechanical devices", tweeters,mids bass drivers, in the speakers will change a bit over time because their roll-surrounds, cones will change compliance, (get stiffer or softer) over time. Also the stuffing inside a speaker will compact over time and "could vary the acoustic damping a little. Even phono cartridges, their cantilever suspension components vary it's compliance over time. Cheers George |
