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Do we break in our componets or do our componets ?

Do we break in our componets or do our componets break us in? I recently added a new addition on to my home. During this process I broke my system down and boxed it up for about 7 weeks. I had dedicated cryoed outlets installed w/ 10 ga romex. The first 10 days or so my sound was horrible with a capital H. I was very distraught to say the least. Over the last 3 days things have changed a lot for the better or so I believe. Have I become adjusted to this sound or did my componets and cables need to break in again? Or is it the breaking in of the new dedicated lines and cryoed outlets? What gives?
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eldartford
4,262 posts
 
Check my post of 8/11 and you will see that I expressed the thought that at some level we are all of the same view about breakin, but we draw the line of "ridiculous" at different points.

Does anyone doubt that speakers change with use?

Does anyone think that listening room air needs breakin?

I tried to pick the extreems in both directions.
rsbeck
887 posts
 
>this is an old debate with fairly clearly drawn sides<

That's an interesting idea. That one can trot out all of
one's old arguments regardless of the stimulus. I think
it would be better to follow the thread at hand and deal
with points that have been made rather than railing
against phantom "measurement people."

But hey -- maybe that's just me.
twl
3,251 posts
 
Rsbeck, sorry you didn't approve of my "straw man" tactics. Upon re-reading the thread, it appears I did go off on a bit of a tangent, that didn't directly address the point of the thread. I guess it is because I have had this type of discussion so many times that I know where it comes from, and don't really have hear a certain phrase to realize it.

However, I do apologize, because others may not have been particularly interested in reading about what the root of the problem is, and would prefer to discuss other aspects. That is perfectly fine, and I will relent based on that.
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