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Phonostage Burn-in to keep unit sharp

There are phonostage burn-in products out there (KAB, Hagerman, Thor) that utilize your CD player. Most frequently these products are used to speed up the break-in process of your phonostage. But are they worthwhile to use every month or so to improve phonostage performance? I was told doing this is akin to driving your car on the freeway to blow out the carbon. I've yet to buy a burn-in unit. Do you think they are worthwhile?
richardmr
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Take a look here:
www.graniteaudio.com/phono/page6.html

Best regards.
pbb
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Most definitely, burn-in and re-burn-in are very important and all components, more so phono stages, need to relearn how to be musical: think about it, a musician has to practice every day to maintain his chops, same thing for a high-end component since they, unlike run-of-the-mill electronics, have a soul to transcend the laws of physics and bring out the emotion in the music.
inpepinnovations1e75
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Strange that silver, while being a better conductor than copper takes longer to break in! Silver has more latent inner emotions, I guess and that it why it takes more time to release them.
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Lol, Pbb. Nice to see your wit is still with us.
eldartford
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Yesterday I accidentally tuned my FM tuner to a Rap music station and it played through my amplifier for several minutes before I realized what was going on. This caused the transistors to become very traumatized, and I expect that several hours of nice quiet Mozart will be needed before the amplifier sounds good again.
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