break in period?

[Chip Chester]

The break-in period in audio gear mentioned isn't "infant mortality" or spec drift. It's stuff like a capacitor changing sound characteristics in apparently perceptible but possibly unmeasurable ways. And cables being directionally oriented to signal direction thru use or by design. Stuff like that. The audiokarma site (and many others) are rich in conversation on such matters.

Component value change due to heat does indeed happen, of course.

Chip