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| What Exactly Does "Burn In" do for Electronics? The effect of burn in on dielectric materials and how it affects the dielectric constant is well understood and can be found all over the Internet by a simple Google, so you can just about ignore all the hoopla surrounding burn in of cables, anyth... | |
| Absolute top tier DAC for standard res Redbook CD In the course of breaking something in, over the subsequent several weeks or whatever I might change or add any number of things in the system, clean contacts, that sort of thing. There's no way I can track how the thing I'm breaking in is coming ... | |
| What Exactly Does "Burn In" do for Electronics? With the cost of patents these days running around $10,000 bucks a pop that's a lot of spinach to get some supposed credibility. Besides, one stipulation for a patent is you actually have to describe in excrutiatingly detail how the things works. ... | |
| World's best Pre-amp for $10K and above? The old Blowtorch Preamp from CTC was world class. It's hasn't been made for quite a while so rotsa ruck finding one. CTC was Curl, Thompson and Crump. | |
| What Exactly Does "Burn In" do for Electronics? Mapman, not really sure what you hope to achieve in this discussion other than to reiterate common naysayer qualms and angst related to unconventional audio activities. Yes, it is a democratic hobby, so even those folks who have stopped trying to ... | |
| What Exactly Does "Burn In" do for Electronics? Mapman, not really sure what you hope to achieve in this discussion other than to reiterate common naysayer qualms and angst related to unconventional audio activities. Yes, it is a democratic hobby, so even those folks who have stopped trying to ... | |
| vacuum tube shelf life Almost forgot, I have '52 Sylvania 6SN7GTs and '42 Tung Sol 5U4G rectifier tubes that sound incredible. '42 tube would be 72 years old if my math is correct. | |
| vacuum tube shelf life I'm pretty sure they actually don't predate Schubert. | |
| Your favorite album cover... Stones Let it BleedBeatles Abbey RoadLed Zeppelin PresenceClash London CallingThe Who The Who Sell OutFrank Zappa What's Got into you Suzy Creamcheese? | |
| What Exactly Does "Burn In" do for Electronics? Mapman wrote,"... its pretty much the wild wild west where anybody can claim anything at anytime with no substantiation and get away with it perhaps."The difference being I have experience in cryoing audio items, 15 years of experience. Whereas yo... | |
| What Exactly Does "Burn In" do for Electronics? George, I can certainly understand your concern and your analysis seems like it might hold water. The problem with your analysis is that in reality tubes are cryo'd everyday in cryo labs around the country without experiencing any problems. | |
| Cable Stress Relief Suspend all power cords and cabling from the ceiling using eye hooks. | |
| What Are your impressions? The Xtreme AV Quicksilver Gold is a cryo'd silver contact enhancer with gold content, highly recommended! | |
| Your favorite album cover... Cream Wheels of FireRolling Stones Their Satanic Majesties RequestBeatles Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club BandRolling Stones Some GirlsJimi Hendrix Axis Bold as Love | |
| Led Zep Reissue on vinyl If the new Zeppelin CD releases sound better than Mothership I'll eat a bug. Scout's honor. |