Welcome Aboard @GRBoomer.Has there been any testing here to confirm if it takes 100s of hours of burn-in before an audio component "sounds" its best?
I'm a bit skeptical, especially for solid-state devices, but prove me wrong with data.
The point is to make stable circuits which are subject to the whims of how long they are burned-in to sound 'better' or 'different'.
I think you caught me mid-edit and quoted the 'defective' version......I probably should have let the post 'burn-in' before clicking the OK button.aren't
There is no need to test/confirm every audiophile consumer psychosis idea, it would be like checking that the planet is not "flat earth." Even the suggestion of testing is part of the psychoses. Otherwise we would just accept the authority of bona fide experts. - In this case, electronic engineers who are familiar with this aspect of the field.Has there been any testing here to confirm if it takes 100s of hours of burn-in before an audio component "sounds" its best?
Burning in for infant mortality is a different thing, and most manufacturers including us do this. Expecting the end customer to do this is insanity.Burn in for electronics is to remove those that normally fail early out of the entire pool thereby increasing the average lifespan of those left. It doesn't change their function or character (performance) but rather their increases the probability of a longer life through reduction/elimination of the typical bell curve, early fail tail.
A while back, I asked about what measurements I could take to check for DAC burn in. The advice I got from experts here is to do a blind test.No one has ever produced any evidence other than sighted listening tests that burn-in alters the sound of any component or cable. The benefits of burn-in thus seem to be a result of the placebo effect.
We welcome the dissenting views of @analogplanet and the other contrarians here.
Either instrument-based measurement or double-blind comparison of a non-burned-in device X against a device X with 1,000 hours on it.A while back, I asked about what measurements I could take to check for DAC burn in. The advice I got from experts here is to do a blind test.
The problem for such advice is this: if a blind test is taking long enough, the device would have burn in (if indeed there is such thing as burn in and how ever brief it is) and I would have failed the blind test.
If you don't mind to offer advice, what kind of measurements can one take to properly check for burn in?
Good. Do you know of any thread here or anywhere else, that specifically did measurements or blind tests for burn in?Either instrument-based measurement or double-blind comparison of a non-burned-in device X against a device X with 1,000 hours on it.
If you don't mind to offer advice, what kind of measurements can one take to properly check for burn in?