How Soon Do You Realize You Don't Like a Piece of Gear?


I've been running all Allnic H3000 for a bit and love it. I decided to try a solid state transimpedance phono, The Grail by Van Den Hul and am coming out unconvinced of the change. The VDH has only been powered on for 24 hours and not fully broken in yet, which is estimated to be around 50-100 "listening hours". 

I don't hate the VDH, but am curious if it's going to grow on me or not. It has the detail, silence and linearity in spades, but my Allnic has the gravity, lushness, depth and ethereal timber I've grown to absolutely love. How soon until I should cut my losses and move back the Allnic and what are your thoughts on break-in time and waiting it out? 

j-wall

Showing 1 response by audioman58

Breakin is more like 150-200 hours mfg almost always minimize breakin 

I owned a audio store and have done lots of mods capacitors the better quality type 

take around 100 hours to stabilize and brightness goes away then another 100 hours to refine . When you compare make sure Everything including all system cables and power cords are the same ,or it won’t be a honest evaluation .

I use the Isotek breakin cd for everything ,and on track 3 it has a system sweep tune up I use 2-3 x a week electrical fields tend to gravitate or stray from center .these CDs , I just down load to the hard drive , they won a couple awards and worth having around ,put on repeat and helps to quick in breakin .

I have read reviews by so called professional reviewers , comparing 2 items then you read in their notes they used a different interconnect , that is pretty ignorant and to not recognize their blunder.