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Originally Posted by ttimbo
(no, it's not --- it's objectively probably the same, but my ears are getting used to it, as they do when you play in groups for a while. Our ears notice the "change" in sound much more readily than the sound itself, but our brains quickly adapt. That's my line on all this.)
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Of course the senses adapt....all you need to do is to be listening to music at 'normal' levels, then hit the mute button for a few minutes. Hit the mute button again and you nearly jump out of your chair at the volume level....yet a couple of minutes later its fine again.
Its also now widely accepted that humans can adapt and even enjoy certain types of distortion....there is a years old discussion between solid state and vacuum tube aficionados on that topic.
But there's any easy way to test what we're discussing. Listen to the stereo in your brand new car and list what you like and don't like about the sound. Now listen to a similar system in a used vehicle. If you can hear a difference and a lot of what you disliked is absent, break-in is real. If there's absolutely no difference, and it sounds identical, it isn't.