Stewart Pinkerton wrote in message ...
On 26 Sep 2004 14:51:46 GMT, "L David Matheny"
wrote:

"Stewart Pinkerton" wrote in message ...
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My only concern is - how will I know when they have stopped
breaking in, and started wearing out? You can't reasonably have
one without the other.....................

It's all the same. You're just trying to move into the long (we hope)
linear part of the wearing-out curve.

Perhaps so. But, given that people who've investigated this
possibility, such as Tom Nousaine and the redoubtable Dick Pierce,
seem to regard 'break-in' as a non-event after the first couple of
*seconds*, and given others (such as the OP himself) who claim never
to have observed 'wear out', do we have any real*evidence* that
break-in really exists? If not, then surely a search for 'the best
break-in CD' is as pointless as arguing which shade of green is best
for painting the edges of CDs?

Mike Scarpitti here.

I have argued vociferously against such myths as 'burn-in' as it's
called on Head-Fi. I was banned for a month simply because I refuse to
believe in this fairy tale.

http://www4.head-fi.org/forums/forum...p?s=&forumid=2

The ONLY thing that playing signals through a driver can do is to heat
it up. If it is allowed to cool, it will return to the same state.