Cheers Dev.
Aren't transformers just very long pieces of wire?
If someone believes wires burn in then surely so can transformers.
Me? I'm on the fence, but I suspect that quality control of the fitting of the connectors by the maker probably has more impact.
(cue Zanash)
Jim
surely the pot or resistor ladder volume control is what burns in..
...or how the brain interprets the sounds.
and will be determined by factors such as mood, state of health, previous experiences, expectations and biases, and so on.
......determined or influenced, tones?
(perhapts a fine line...)
I suggest there is a very important point here that is being missed. We can learn over time (consciously or unconsciously) to hear more critically and detect subtleties that others do not notice. As we upgrade our hifi systems and listen more carefully to them we also upgrade our listening skills. Maybe this is a reason why we are often dissatisfied with some aspect of our systems even if to others they sound fantastic.
Take an analogy with wine. To appreciate top quality wines your taste has to be cultivated through many tutored tasting sessions - you have to learn to appreciate the complexities and subtleties. If you asked average customers in a supermarket, for example, to taste wine at say £5 a bottle and £500 a bottle you'd probably get a 50/50 split or even a preference for the cheap stuff. (I think the trick here is not to acquire a taste for expensive wine!).
As another example closer to home, you can buy a violin for say £300 or easily £300,000. Now if you stopped people in the street, played a few bars on each instrument then asked them which they'd prefer or even if there was differenceââ'¬Â¦ Yet to most professional musicians and classical aficionados there is the world of difference because they've spend many years learning those differences.
So the more we listen critically to our systems, the more we increase our listening skills, the more subtleties we can detect and the more important (to us) they are. As with wine, perhaps the trick is to be happy with what we have and to realise that those subtleties are maybe not so important after all.
cables need burn-in for over 200 hours and some times over 500 hours to reaching their natural texture.
Yes and this is our road to unhapiness. Last week I listened to a £50k system based around a Simon Yorke TT. The whole thing sounded so perfect, analytical and well-balanced that I found it simply dreadful. They should have paid me quite an amount of money to walk home with the system and even then, I would have sold it. Quite significantly, the shopkeeper used a few standard audiofool records and never cleaned them before spinning, such things just hurt my eyes.Maybe this is a reason why we are often dissatisfied with some aspect of our systems even if to others they sound fantastic.