Is there a break-in time for capacitors?

nduitch
nduitch Posts: 316
edited April 2009 in Vintage Speakers
Recently I upgraded one of the crossovers in my monitor 7's with Dayton caps. Initially, I heard no improvement between new caps and the stock caps in mono switching back and forth. Do these have to break in or should there be a audible difference right away, what are your experiences?
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  • Face
    Face Posts: 14,340
    edited April 2009
    Yes, it can take up to a couple hundred hours.
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  • F1nut
    F1nut Posts: 50,746
    edited April 2009
    In my experience with new caps the treble sounds rough/edgy at first, but most show an immediate improvement in the bass. Since you can't hear a difference....well, I'm not sure what to say. Instead of running a mono signal try stereo. If you have a balance control, switch back and forth between left and right.

    As Face stated, new caps can take 200 hours to burn in and some take upwards of 400 hours.
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