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In Reply to: Don't want to get into burn-in period discussions, but . .. posted by J North on January 3, 2004 at 17:45:16:
I'm only relating my direct experience, with a component I've had in my home for 8 weeks now - but aging takes a long time, longer than hours or even hundreds of hours (after all only 10 days is 240 hours already - Paul on the PS Audio power forum says even his Xtream Statements take 2 weeks minimum, just for power wire transmission!).I listen to the panasonic anywhere from 3 to 5 hours per day, and since I'm listening to an all digital cablefeed, I am hearing largely new music that I have no preconceptions about. Still, you hear the songs in heaviest rotation at least once daily, enough to appreciate the differences over time.
I'm not suggesting the Panasonic will then overtake stereophile rated class A components, but in my personal experience (and I posted them on this page at those times/dates) there was an easily perceptible change in overall dimensionality, focus, and musicality - easily in some of the areas you mentioned it was weaker aka "air and ambiance". I'm not doubting your conclusions for a minute, and am not questioning them since I have no direct experience with the other equipment you mention.
I know many feel breakin is a joke and cop-out, but if you ever listen to a new component from day one with no other tweaks, component changes, speaker movements, interconnect changes, etc - it's really not that hard to hear. Not daily, but weekly for sure. How many people on this page go for 6 whole months without changing a single thing? Sometimes I wonder...
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