I need a 1K amp.

It's not very esoteric I admit so it ain't gonna impress the old snooty audiophiles snobbery but it's fun. So....I'm happy and the record shop beckons. 😁

Great news, and there's folk out there who don't believe in 'running in'.

Like me

it's the mind acclimatising to the different presentation. happened to me plenty of times and it isn't running in because it happens with equipment that has had many hours of use even before it came to me. 

And not everything that's brand new sounds wrong from the off. Whereas  if running in was real it would affect all new equipment. It only happens when you;ve got a difference in presentation between what you're used to and the new item. Cyrus and Denon are quite a different presentation and Mr E has had what? 20 years with his Cyrus? 

There's been a few times when I've had something new (or new to me) and thought I'd never get used to how it plays music and I have. And a few times were I thought I'd got used to it and then after a few months reluctantly decided it was never going to click with me. Hopefully that won't happen here. 

Don't buy that as the amp would have been soak-tested at the factory and the caps would form then.

Although I'll concede that it might require some warming up from cold - new out of the box after sitting in a warehouse for months, possibly. That might make a subtle but noticeable difference to the sound. Which I suppose is all it would take. Difficult to separate that from psychological acclimatisation though.

No probably not but I reckon they'll all be tested (even if just the boards) which is probably long enough for any forming to occur....

So your suggesting is that rather than it settling in it's my brain that's radged ?
mmm....Interesting.
In fact it's probably more likely.
My brain is a pretty random factor.
I mean sometimes it's capable of even surprising me with its brilliance . But I have to admit that in anything other than a serious and solution needy scenario it's habit is usually to slip into complete juvinility. It's how I get by.
But I have a question. If it went through no change from being in the box to its current state , why did it stink like someone had dug my mother up for the first 4 hours ?

You've got a reference for this? I've searched the internet and I can't find anything. 

With lytics forming is taken to mean the time taken for the leakage to reach a steady state value. In circuit this can take ages, depending on voltage they see and current flowing through them. Paradise caps take about 70 hours.

On the bench with a DC supply and a suitable power resistor they take ten minutes.

I've never seen any reference material for film caps.

Cables burning in? Burning out yes but burning in, I'm outta here