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Why no “Break in” period?

If people say there’s a break in period for everything from Amps to cartridges to cables to basically everything... why is it with new power conditioners that people say they immediately notice “the floor drop away” etc.  Why no break in on that?

I’m not trying to be snarky - I’m genuinely asking.
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@millercarbon gave you the correct and accurate response.  The rest of the thread is superfluous, with people using it to grind various axes.
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OK, let's look at this another way.  Who turns on their Class A amp, immediately starts playing music and expects to hear optimal sound?

While I don't go nearly as far down the road as @millercarbon, the initial response was perfectly reasonable: a new component, any new component, swopped into a system is more likely than not to produce a different sonic presentation, better, worse, or just different.  After "settling", there are likely to be further changes, typically less radical than those initially noted.

All the rest is an argument that has stretched over dozens and dozens of recent threads.

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Harder to understand are these accounts of cables and AC receptacles that go on roller-coaster rides of sounding better, then worse, then better, then worse, then even better again.
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