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Ahhhh...breaking in a cartridge.

While I'm pretty sure most loudspeakers and components do have some break in period, I KNOW cartridges do break in because I've heard the diminishment of surface noise (and other stuff, which may be more subjective) over time. 

I'm breaking in a new Audio Technica ART9 cartridge.  I'm 5 hours in and my ear is either getting used to it or it's sounding better. :)  This is not much time, I know.  I am trying to listen to the same records (about 5 albums) over and over, of which I'm well familiar to see how things go.  If I had to sum up the break in thusfar in one statement I'd say things don't sound as tight and reserved. 

By the way, this cartridge is going to be killer.  It's tonal balance is superb.  Not one region of the spectrum is emphasized. 
jbhiller

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nandric
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Carts ''tuning'' seems to be the prerogative of ''carts masters''.

This imply that those ''masters '' are clairvoyant because they

know how their cart will sound ,say, 100 hour later. The question is

what their  tuning means. To my knowledge only Van den Hul is

willing to (re) adjust his carts after 300 hour of use. Why should

he do this? Is he less clairvoyant than his copmetitors? My guess

is that people accomodate to a particular sound and think that

not their hearing but the cart changed. ''Self-deception'' is the

name of this phenomena.

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nandric
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Dear Chakster, The Germans are not known as people with any

sense for humor. Anyway that is what all Dutch think.  However they

 invented this saying: ''Wein,Weiber und Gesang'' ( wine, women and

music). I do believe that your carts sound better with wine but hope

for you that their suspension are in the same place as before.

According to me our dear stringreen drunk to much wine by his

last post (grin). There are those difficult to understand conditions.

Some of them are regarded as ''necessary'' the other as ''suficient''.

I am not sure which to apply to you and which to stringreen .

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