I hope break in is true


This is the first time I ever bought a brand new out of the box Preamp. No, wait. Second but, the other doesn't count.
I had made previous posts about my decision to downsize.
I have, everything is kinda good. You know, Okay.
I bought a pre here. great seller, great store. Couldn't have been smoother.
I am just not used to this type of stuff. I wanted something with a phono included. I kept it well under a $1000.00
Now, I got to ask you guys. Will this thing get better???/
I have not had to worry about break in before. Does it really exist?
It is a very well built unit. Remote, I'm not used to that! That's nice. Has everything I need. Except it isn't alive. The music is there, presented very nicely. Clean, no extra stuff. Just doesn't have any dimension.
Please tell me this is going to get better:)
scottht

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My Esoteric X03-SE took 1200 hours to break in. No myth. No Joke. Others who have it said the same-my dealer has one also and, again, took him over 1000 hours. I'd say some items sound very god out of the box and get better after 100 hours or so (+); The Esoteric sounded absolutely horrible out of the box and is now one of the best CD players I have heard - no joke, guys.
Throwing another of my two cents - don't confuse break in and warming up. My gear still takes 40 or so minutes before sounding it's best. The squeezebox/benchmark only takes about 20 minutes or so but the Esoteric likes to play a bit longer before blowing my mind. My Meridian 588 took 2 hours before sounding it's best (which I never thought was very good, by the way--but much better than when it first started playing).