THE VALUE OF ‘RUNNING-IN’ HI-FI KIT

Managing editor Becky Roberts gathers top hi-fi engineers’ thoughts on the topic

So you’ve just snuck some new hi-fi kit into your house and have wired it up to your system. You have lined up your favourite album and are ready and eager to listen to how much better it now sounds compared to yesterday and congratulate yourself on your latest purchase. But between set-up and performance scrutiny is a process that will undoubtedly irk the impatient but could prevent confusion if the kit doesn’t sound as you remember it from the demo room. Yep, we’re talking about ‘running-in’. You are probably familiar with the phrase, and it essentially refers to an initial period of use whereby the moving parts begin to work and stabilise in their forever environment, during which a last little bit of shifting could occur. Just as a…

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What Hi-Fi? (Digital) - 1 Issue, February 2025

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