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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
alephman
107 posts
 
Granite Audio makes a CD you can get from Music Direct. You just plug your CD player into your phono stage, but only track 33 for low output MC.
ctm_cra
86 posts
 
Just searched for and found this excellent topic with very useful information. Thanks so much to all contributors. Now where did I bury that silver cable and that 50 Cent cd ;-)
thommas
60 posts
 
Why wouldn't the manufacturer burn in the equipment before shipping.
That way, when you get the item, its burned in. Well, you know the answer know, don't you?
dazzdax
599 posts
 
Would using CDP as a "phono preamp cooker" not fry the preamp with it's 2V (or higher) output? Especially when CDP is connected to the preamp input for low output MC carts. If that is not an issue, then I'm gonna do that. I promise not to use the requiem thing for this purpose.

Chris
dan_ed
2,451 posts
 
Be careful here, Chris. I do believe that these devices such as the one Hagerman builds has a circuit board that connects between the CPD and the inputs on the phonostage to drop the signal strength many fold. This is to prevent severly overloading the phono stage circuits. I prefer just playing records to burn stuff in, but if you want to speed this up with one of these CDs, that't fine. However, do look into purchasing one of the products mentioned in the original post.
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