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Originally Posted by Andy Krehm  Interesting comment about burning in a unit. If I take the comment "a few hundred hours" and translate that to number of albums mastered, I would get approx. 60 to 80!
Who could possibly take that long to evaluate a unit while using it during the process of mastering albums? How could one keep using a unit they didn't like the sound of while waiting for it to burn in and sound as intended?
I've evaluated every unit I own (except my ATR deck) before buying and if I didn't like the sound or think it was suitable for my work, I didn't buy it. However, almost everything I've tried was researched in advance and I have bought almost all the units I have demoed so not sure if the burn in comment applies to new units. |
Re: burn in. Caps especially but everything including even wire and solder joints will change the sound as they burn in. New units or any new component within a unit will take a while before it comes into its own. There are hard science reasons for this having to do with dielectric quality, crystal lattice alignment and other issues. I run signal through any piece of new gear for several days on end. With an EQ you would have to do this in every position so all the EQ caps especially get some battle duty of at least 100 hours before actual use. The sound can change pretty radically, and always for the better.