H10 labels the related switch as "unbanl\bal" vertically which challenges my eye sight and intelligence, both of min are declining these days.
Oh! Is that what is says?!? I just keep all the dip switches in the down position, and hope.
I think it's rather easy to make that mistake, particularly if you are using rca's (unbalanced). If you have only been using xlr's (balanced) like I have, it's a little more difficult to make the dip switch error. The reason for that is with balanced connectors, the wrong switch setting is absolutely horrible sounding...you will notice an unmistakable problem.
As for burn-in....no myth brother. It's been affirmed by dozens of us with almost the exact same experience, but, could someone possibly listen to rca's with the wrong dip switch setting and over time think it sounded better?...entirely possible. You may be on to something there. I sure hope there weren't more than a few Swabbies that had to suffer through this and perhaps thought we were all a bit crazy with our opinions.
No disagreement, about burn-in, here; I was just connecting with some who haven't noticed any real change.
Actually, I was trying to say that using the wrong connection settings could maybe have someone putting the poor sq down to the need for burn-in, regardless of whether it improves, or not. But, how long would someone wait, to hear this 'magical' post burning-in veil lifted, before they'd give up; not realising that that they'd so severely compromised the sound, simply due to an incorrect setting?
Looking at least one of the affected swabbies, they've even gone and splashed out on Bursons (full boat) (not cheap!), and still continued listening with this issue, until now!!!
I haven't (yet) 'messed around' and experimented with trying the wrong setting, myself. But it would be interesting to quantify what kind of difference it makes; comparing it to both other amps and op-amp upgrades; as one user said, the sound was different, in a kind of disappointing way. But they still (reluctantly) accepted it. So I guess that the (wrong setting) sq is comparable to something that someone, somewhere, would actually use. Maybe happily! I wonder what kind of amp that is.
In the same repect, does switching, from the incorrect, to the correct setting improve the sq by more, or less, than upgrading to (say) 'full-boat' op-amps?
I guess that this interests me, because I think that it will help me to get a better understanding of what kind of comparisons people are making.
And yes; maybe there are some swabbies who thought that we're all full of hot air!
I think on the next one they need to make it a button instead of a dip switch for switching from unbalanced to balanced as I made that mistake twice. Forgetting about it being in balanced, or at least make it more clear.
I haven't checked, but I guess that this is another 'carry-over' from the V200. The dip switches are useful. But the fiddly and unclear (balanced/unbalanced) connection settings are causing people problems.
Anyway, I'd better check mine. Just one more time!
