New Speakers

[Pim]

I am now starting to think that you just get used to a speaker and then when you put another one in the system you get a bit of a shock.

I sometimes wonder if the "burn in" factor that manufacturers and dealers talk about may just be the listener getting used to the sound of the new gear and not really the new gear "getting better over time"...

That's what a lot of people seem to think so you're not alone. It makes a lot of sense too. Think about food for instance. Your mother's cooking is the first food you eat. You get used to that. Then you grow up and go to friend's places and have to get used to their mother's food. As you travel through life, your senses adapt. 

There are loads of 'two week challenges' nowadays for cereals etc. It's the advertiser's way to get you used to a product. Two weeks seems to be the norm in advertising so it's safe to say that it takes two weeks for a person to get accustomed to their latest buy.

The only way to know for sure is to have an identical product new out of the box ready to compare after two weeks. But that's hardly ever done.