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Phono Section Break-In CD ??

A fellow audiophile friend of mine told me about a Phono Section Break-In CD he had read about, possibly in Fremer's column, that has a very low level signal output- similar to the output of a MC cartridge. Apparently you put this disc in your CD player, plug the CD outputs into the phono section inputs and hit the repeat button. This is supposed to afford you with fast, efficient phono section break-in, particularly useful for breaking in step-up transformers. Anybody know about this item, and where to get one ?
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motdathird
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Do you keep a straight face when cashing checks for those phono Burn-In CD's? :-)
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marakanetz
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A+ Q, Motdathird!
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thom_at_galibier_design
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Better yet, break your phono stage in while listening to your CD. Jim Hagerman sells an inverse RIAA circuit (http://www.hagtech.com/iriaa.html) that drops the signal either 44dB or 66dB. Plug your CD output into one side, the output into your phono stage and let 'er rip. A couple or 3 days of this is the equivalent of 50 hours or 150 LP sides ... with not obnoxious test tones.

Disclaimer - I'll be exhibiting with Jim Hagerman (and John Chapman - Bent Audio) at VSAC, but I got to know Jim first by being a very happy customer (with my Trumpet phono stage).

Cheers,
Thom @ Galibier
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