# Break-in time
**URL:** https://forum.psaudio.com/t/break-in-time/5557
**Category:** Amplifiers
**Created:** [March 31, 2018, 3:27am UTC](https://forum.psaudio.com/t/break-in-time/5557 "2018-03-31T03:27:30Z")
**Posts on this page:** 17
**Page:** 1
### Author:  [@wanganui](https://forum.psaudio.com/u/wanganui)
#### Post date: [March 31, 2018, 3:27am UTC](https://forum.psaudio.com/t/break-in-time/5557/1 "2018-03-31T03:27:30Z")
Hello. New PS Audio BHK 250 owner here. Wondering how long I can expect the break-in time to be. Anyone?
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### Author:  [@michael-denmark](https://forum.psaudio.com/u/michael-denmark)
#### Post date: [March 31, 2018, 5:56am UTC](https://forum.psaudio.com/t/break-in-time/5557/2 "2018-03-31T05:56:40Z")
I ran all my PS audio equipment for 200 hours if I do not know - but that’s how I do. Have just got a BHK 250 more. So congratulations to you. Hope you will be happy for your new amplifier.
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### Author:  [@Brodric](https://forum.psaudio.com/u/Brodric)
#### Post date: [March 31, 2018, 11:34am UTC](https://forum.psaudio.com/t/break-in-time/5557/3 "2018-03-31T11:34:50Z")
> [@wanganui](#):
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> New PS Audio BHK 250 owner here
Without pictures, don’t believe you 😆
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### Author:  [@michael-denmark](https://forum.psaudio.com/u/michael-denmark)
#### Post date: [March 31, 2018, 11:59am UTC](https://forum.psaudio.com/t/break-in-time/5557/4 "2018-03-31T11:59:30Z")
Brodric 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤐
I whip you in the ass Brodric 😆😉😘
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### Author:  [@Brodric](https://forum.psaudio.com/u/Brodric)
#### Post date: [March 31, 2018, 12:17pm UTC](https://forum.psaudio.com/t/break-in-time/5557/5 "2018-03-31T12:17:42Z")
The HiFi rack looks interesting. My dealer says I need a new rack…unfortunately I can’t pony up the $$$ for a Magico Mrack.
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### Author:  [@michael-denmark](https://forum.psaudio.com/u/michael-denmark)
#### Post date: [March 31, 2018, 12:31pm UTC](https://forum.psaudio.com/t/break-in-time/5557/6 "2018-03-31T12:31:17Z")
I have so many other races I can use … but this is with some cool wheels on which I can drive around or away when I make measurements in the room etc … blah blah blah
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### Author:  [@Elk](https://forum.psaudio.com/u/Elk)
#### Post date: [March 31, 2018, 1:28pm UTC](https://forum.psaudio.com/t/break-in-time/5557/7 "2018-03-31T13:28:51Z")
You are evil. 😁
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### Author:  [@Brodric](https://forum.psaudio.com/u/Brodric)
#### Post date: [March 31, 2018, 1:31pm UTC](https://forum.psaudio.com/t/break-in-time/5557/8 "2018-03-31T13:31:45Z")
Maybe, but not as evil as a cricketer with yellow sandpaper.
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### Author:  [@Paul](https://forum.psaudio.com/u/Paul)
#### Post date: [March 31, 2018, 1:34pm UTC](https://forum.psaudio.com/t/break-in-time/5557/9 "2018-03-31T13:34:38Z")
Boy, that joke went over my American head real fast.
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### Author:  [@Brodric](https://forum.psaudio.com/u/Brodric)
#### Post date: [March 31, 2018, 1:38pm UTC](https://forum.psaudio.com/t/break-in-time/5557/10 "2018-03-31T13:38:00Z")
Not a joke, Australia is a nation in mourning…the only story in world affairs to knock yellow sandpaper off the front page of the newspapers here would be World War III starting.
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### Author:  [@Elk](https://forum.psaudio.com/u/Elk)
#### Post date: [March 31, 2018, 2:10pm UTC](https://forum.psaudio.com/t/break-in-time/5557/11 "2018-03-31T14:10:09Z")
Good point.
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### Author:  [@michael-denmark](https://forum.psaudio.com/u/michael-denmark)
#### Post date: [March 31, 2018, 2:30pm UTC](https://forum.psaudio.com/t/break-in-time/5557/12 "2018-03-31T14:30:49Z")
Hello girls question was "Hello. New PS Audio BHK 250 owner here. Wondering how long I can expect the break-in time to be. Anyone?
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### Author:  [@wudai\_e](https://forum.psaudio.com/u/wudai_e)
#### Post date: [August 23, 2022, 6:58pm UTC](https://forum.psaudio.com/t/break-in-time/5557/13 "2022-08-23T18:58:33Z")
Resurrecting a dead old thread, why is it during the breaking period of my BHK250, or any new piece of gear in a properly set up system, there is a period of “crazy good, then meh… then crazy bad… meh, then omg there it is” going on? Anyone has a theory?
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### Author:  [@vkennedy61](https://forum.psaudio.com/u/vkennedy61)
#### Post date: [August 23, 2022, 8:44pm UTC](https://forum.psaudio.com/t/break-in-time/5557/14 "2022-08-23T20:44:13Z")
1. Are you basing your opinion during start up or 30-60 minutes after you have turned on your system?
2. Are you basing your opinion on the same time of day? Power quality is better at night.
3. Are you basing your opinion on the same recordings? Some recordings are better than others.
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### Author:  [@wudai\_e](https://forum.psaudio.com/u/wudai_e)
#### Post date: [August 23, 2022, 10:29pm UTC](https://forum.psaudio.com/t/break-in-time/5557/15 "2022-08-23T22:29:32Z")
the unit is warmed up during the morning, playing it in the afternoon, I loop my faved list and sit down occasionally for 5 or 10min listen. At least for me, the first week is choppy, not consistent.
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### Author:  [@RonP](https://forum.psaudio.com/u/RonP)
#### Post date: [August 23, 2022, 11:13pm UTC](https://forum.psaudio.com/t/break-in-time/5557/16 "2022-08-23T23:13:19Z")
[ ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lJFnlDTtsBA)
Watch this.
Every manufacturer that I have experience with burns-in their gear; components or speakers before they go out their door.
Since burn-in burns money in time, effort and resources, they wouldn’t do it if it wasn’t important.
I also think there must be some burn-in involved in our own neural network.
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### Author:  [@wudai\_e](https://forum.psaudio.com/u/wudai_e)
#### Post date: [August 24, 2022, 5:02am UTC](https://forum.psaudio.com/t/break-in-time/5557/17 "2022-08-24T05:02:38Z")
Thanks for the video, my BHK 250 never sounded bad during the first week, it’s just that there are days it sounds very correct but emotionally uninvolving. That’s when I call it meh… Could be me too. It’s a different burn in experience compared to my M700…