I hope break in is true
Granite Audio also has an interesting disk that will burn-in your whole system or just burn-in the bass, midrange, or treble sections separately, using a choice of pink or white noise, or focused sweep tones. I have used it to get results similar to those that Sean describes, but have no experience to compare it with the Ayre disk. http://www.graniteaudio.com/phono/page7.html |
Don Hogland, Granite Audio, certainly would disagree with you, as he bills this as a "system" workout. This disk certainly improved my system, although I admit I can't determine specifically where. My speakers have 1000 hours on them, so I wouldn't have expected it to only work on them. Also, I have used his Phono Burn in disk, which is specially recorded to allow your CD player to drive the phono stage during burn in. It also made a noticable improvement, and certainly a phono stage is not a speaker. Apparently your experience is different, and I respect that. |
Scottht: I would beg to differ pertaining to your claims that these discs do nothing to the electronics. I've used the Ayre disc to "break in" CD / DVD players with no sound being reproduced through the rest of the system. The improvements in the CD / DVD players were quite audible. Having said that, these discs will affect speaker performance, hence my previous comments pertaining to the rebuild of my Father's speakers. As a side note, the only thing changed in the speakers were the wiring, solder and design configuration of the crossover parts, so these are all "electronic components". Otherwise, the drivers themselves had multiple thousands of hours of use on them. Sean > |
