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In Reply to: Capacitor break-in question? posted by Ryan on April 12, 2002 at 15:00:05:
On only two occasions have I changed a cap on its own, so my answer
applies only to these events.I found an Auricap (signal coupling cap) didn't sound very good at
first but improved a lot in a week to become good. Then the improvement
was slow and steady for a month, becoming rather special.A Black Gate in a power supply was reasonable at first but didn't
improve much over a few weeks. I can almost believe that it got worse
and reached a low point after 4 weeks but this is probably a delusion.
But after about 8 weeks it was fine and seemed to reach its peak after
about 10 weeks.A recently built DIY valve power amp has improved considerably over
about 6 weeks. I'd guess it's mainly the caps that are running in but
have no way of knowing.So this consensus of one :-) is that caps do run in; the change is
quite substantial; and it's a highly non-linear process wrt time.
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- My very limited experience ... - Mike C 04:54:26 04/15/02 (0)
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