New turntable break-in?


Everyone talks about the 'burn-in' time required for:-
Cartridges
Cables
Valves
Amps
Speakers

I've never heard anyone talk about the 'burn-in' required for turntables?
Here is a complex electro-mechanical device that spins on a bearing.
If ANY component should have a 'break-in' period, I would have thought the turntable was a sitter?

The reason I'm bringing this up is that I've had my new Raven AC for a month now, and every day the sound changes.....it gets BETTER.
When I first set it up, it sounded positively awful....no bass, no transparency, no soundstage.....in fact it sounded like the speakers were wired out-of-phase.

Every day that passes, it responds to more tweaking of the arm/cartridge combination (alignment, VTA, VTF etc) and the bass, depth and soundstage become more and ever more satisfying.
In fact, I don't yet know when it will stop?

Has anyone else experienced this phenomenon?...and if so, why is it not mentioned in the audio reviews?
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