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[thecheapseats]

I avoided all that by making my own speakers. Sure, now I'll play with crossovers and EQ for the next hundred years. But it's free!

and no refrigerator box necessary...

 

[Dunring]

while they may or may not burnin their space ships, they definitely have their electronics burned in.
All space products (and virtually all military) products require burnin. Its a part of their spec.
I had 20 years in the electronics industry with the military and space depts from the US requiring this. The burn in was to filter out infant mortality

I agree, running it to test for failures is always a good idea. I built PC's for decades and we always ran it on a stress test for crashes or memory errors. It wasn't because we were expecting the sound card would sound better though.

 

[Trell]

while they may or may not burnin their space ships,

That’s what the reentry is for.

 

[r042wal]

while they may or may not burnin their space ships, they definitely have their electronics burned in.
All space products (and virtually all military) products require burnin. Its a part of their spec.
I had 20 years in the electronics industry with the military and space depts from the US requiring this. The burn in was to filter out infant mortality

I agree but the military burn-in spec is for an entirely different reason - failure. If my new DAC fails, there's a good chance it will be with 90 days and something is defective.

I built computers too when I was starting off in IT. We would let them run (burn in) for 24 hours but that was because there were high failure rates from a lot of the cheap Chinese components like $15 switching power supplies

 

[fpitas]

I agree but the military burn-in spec is for an entirely different reason - failure. If my new DAC fails, there's a good chance it will be with 90 days and something is defective.

I built computers too when I was starting off in IT. We would let them run (burn in) for 24 hours but that was because there were high failure rates from a lot of the cheap Chinese components like $15 switching power supplies

That's certainly a point of any burn-in, is finding infant mortality.

 

[thecheapseats]

That's certainly a point of any burn-in, is finding infant mortality.

yep - infant component death - it's a thing...