carlo
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Hirsch,
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in the audio circles i spend time in (pretty much other reviewers), burn-in is accepted as fact. to some extent this is true for the only other audio board i frequent (audioasylum) as well.
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in this example, psychoacoustics isn't a variable... but you do raise an obvious next question: how do you know the component has broken in? following your logic you haven't gotten used to how the component sounds in your system before break-in, so can you compare sound after the process?
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after break-in i assume? then psychoacoustics has now become a variable.
once again, i do and have experienced burn/break-in with many, many, many components. however, just as i accept that there isn't any conclusive scientific explanation for it (what've we got, dielectric theories? sketchy electromagnetic theory?) i also accept that it's possible (note the word possible) that it's all in my head.
i think we'd both agree that it's what a person hears that's important, it's the most sensitive measuring tool we have. Wes hears differently than anyone else. same for everyone on this board (hobby, planet, whatever). i hear break in, so do you, so do a lot of people... but a hell of a lot of people believe a lot of things. it's still subjective, not absolute truth.
best,
carlo
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Methinks the opposite, that the psychoacoustic effect of burn-in is given way too much credit. |
in the audio circles i spend time in (pretty much other reviewers), burn-in is accepted as fact. to some extent this is true for the only other audio board i frequent (audioasylum) as well.
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I don't listen to my equipment much during burn-in (except for occasional brief checks to see how it's doing). I eagerly await an explanation of how my perception of a device I am not listening to is subject to perceptual change. You have to listen to it to get used to it. If you don't, you don't. |
in this example, psychoacoustics isn't a variable... but you do raise an obvious next question: how do you know the component has broken in? following your logic you haven't gotten used to how the component sounds in your system before break-in, so can you compare sound after the process?
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Yet I still hear changes over time. |
after break-in i assume? then psychoacoustics has now become a variable.
once again, i do and have experienced burn/break-in with many, many, many components. however, just as i accept that there isn't any conclusive scientific explanation for it (what've we got, dielectric theories? sketchy electromagnetic theory?) i also accept that it's possible (note the word possible) that it's all in my head.
i think we'd both agree that it's what a person hears that's important, it's the most sensitive measuring tool we have. Wes hears differently than anyone else. same for everyone on this board (hobby, planet, whatever). i hear break in, so do you, so do a lot of people... but a hell of a lot of people believe a lot of things. it's still subjective, not absolute truth.
best,
carlo