I searched the forum for break in time. It seems people don't think ther is one. Well if there isn't this is comming back. In Home theatre it was very impressive. Definetly outperformed my Integra DTR 5.3 by a wide margin. But for music it's just not very good. It sounds grainy and not very musical. Some things like clarinet and sax sound good. But other horns are irritating. Rock is also grainy sounding. It's just not very pleasurable to listen to. My integra sounds so much more musical. I think the bass could be more adjustable also. I have it turned all the way up and I still think I need more. The reason being the mids are too prominent foy my taste. I have very revealing Axiom speakers. Also I got shorted on my cables and I called my sales rep and haven't heard back on the issue. I'm using some G-snakes for cables from the pre to the amp for now. So one of my Turn Tables is down.