My Ayre Codex DAC took about 400-500 hours to breakin. I'm probably at 800-900 hours now and they sound fantastic at his point. Very happy with the sound.
Nitewulf has very good point and is probably on the right track in my experience. The mind is very powerful and automatically starts filling in gaps and frequency observations while listening to familiar music.
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