I hope break in is true

Amazing how manufacturers figured out how to make components sound better after they break in. It must be true, since no one actually says, I broke my amp in and now it sounds bad, I think I'll take it back. Wait, oops, it's too late, the dealer won't take it back now. Get the picture? In terms of speaker break in, it takes just a few minutes to break the drivers in according to some articles I found. Just do a search on that topic.

Found this little article on the web, just something to think about:

Here's a little thought experiment:
1) Audio amplifiers need breaking in.
2) The means that some of the electrical components are changing their characteristics during use.
3) That means that the characteristics of the components are not as good as they could be when the device is manufactured.
4) These components change and the audio gets better.
5) Somehow, these components stop changing when the audio gets great.

Now, here are some questions:
1) Why do the components change?
2) Why do they stop changing?
3) Why do they change in a direction that makes the audio get better?
4) Why don't they change "too far" and make the audio worse after time?
5) Why don't the manufacturers run the amp for 100 hours and then measure the component characteristics, and then build them that way in the first place?

As you can see, this is hokus-pokus non-physics, and is often thoroughly
debunked snake-oil.

This topic has been beaten to death as long as I've been here which is over five years. It's no wonder a lot of the old timers haven't chimed in. There have been lengthy debates among engineers and physicists on Audiogon about this. We all have our own experiences regarding this phenomena, but please, please run a search in the archives.

Gunbei
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Just trying to help. Oh well.