In article , Chris Isbell
wrote:
On Sun, 13 Jul 2003 20:22:12 +0100, Des
wrote:

Reviewers often comment that it takes about 100 hours before a new amp
settles down and start to sound like it 'should'.

Given some of the hype and other snake-oil that reviewers appear to fall
for, I would treat anything they say with a very large pinch of salt. A
lot of what I read is techno babble. (For example, a longstanding and
generally well regarded reviewer demonstrated his total lack of
understanding of Ohm's law in one article I read.)

I lost count long ago of all the instances where magazine review articles
showed the reviewer did not understand the basic electronics, physics, or
information theory required. Gave up reading the mags for about 10 years as
I found this so distracting when reading.

If the components in an amplifier are changing their properties over
hundreds of hours in a manner that is audible then the amplifier is
unlikely to be reliable for very long.

Electolytic caps come to mind here. However I would hope that a decent
design would be built to avoid this. Indeed, apart from power reservoirs,
my understanding is that electrolytics are generally avoided these days in
equipment with 'audiophile' aspirations.

Slainte,

Jim

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