Esoteric C-03 Break In Time


I've just taken delivery of a new Esoteric C-03 preamplifier. Out of the box this pre is a bit cold and dry. Does anyone have any experience with breaking in their C-03, and how long did it take for the beast to settle down and blossom?
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Mine smoothed out after a couple hundred hours.

Put a cd on repeat or leave your tuner on so there is an active input.

Of course leave it powered up as the lack of on/off switch would indicate.

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>assures us with well founded authority that at the 200 hours mark, the device has reached peak performance<

That is incorrect.

I never claimed at 200 hours it "reached peak performance". That is your inference and quite flawed I might add.

My post states "mine smoothed out after a couple hundred hours".

Please read my post more carefully so as not to mislead the readers