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

Nope, sorry. Einstein would never say something so trite. It doesn’t mean anything.

You are right :) but I love this " trite" citation....
Sometimes banality reflect the situation itself....This was my point....

It is for the last decades in all audio thread this break-in "problem" that is not one simple problem but reflective of a complex situation, a trite problematic, implicating an experiencing subjectivity and a complex audio system .....
I dont think blind test, or comparison will settle that, except for those who call the improvement in some break-in process an illusion because it is mostly only subjectively experienced ( not necessarily an illusion or a placebo tough) and not measurable the way they will like it...

Like say Einstein in a non trite citation:

"“We can not solve our problems with the same level of thinking that created them.”

And this apply also to the break- in problem ….


But you said that this citation is not meaningful.... I dont think so... This is my translation:

“Not everything that counts can be counted,
and not everything that can be counted counts.”

All parameters linked to a problem cannot always be takes into account by the problem's statement
And more than that some parameters of the problem are sometimes secondary for the solution...

I forget to say that this first citation is effectively not from Einstein...
It seems trite or a banality... Yes... Not meaningful ? no...And like my "translation" or reformulated statement made it clear, there is a link between the citation falsely attributed to Einstein, and the real citation of Einstein....

the 2 citations are well related to this break-in problem, which is also, in some aspect, an optimization problem....

My" translation" of the trite citation in a new statement of it, refer to what in mathematics, computer science and economics, is call an optimization problem , the problem of finding the best solution from all feasible solutions. is it not clear?

With this short post about this "trite" citation, falsely attributed to Einstein, I was willing to only makes my point in few clear words... But you push me to be more clear, and clarify something that is apparently trite but meaningful tough....

my best....

Mitch2, yeah well it’s April 20 and still cold here - snow last week and 25 deg F this morning. But sunny, it was sunny. I’ll keep telling myself that. 😬

Pan fried. Mashed potatoes. Ice cold beer. We call them Dore in Quebec. Pronounced door-eh.

Same thing here fundsgon.  Supposed to snow Wednesday morning.  Maybe I will take my cables outside for a cryo fix, sit in the lawn chair, have a cold one, shorten the break-in time.

We have Chain Pickerel in Mass, similar to Pike and Musky.  I'm not familiar with Walleye but they very much resemble the salt water Striped Bass but are not closely related.  

I can't tell you in if a cable has 200 hundred or 800 hours on it but I've been enjoying my system while eating brown trout lately.