>>Some of you guys made me feel really stupid with the "break in", even though I was quite sure what I heard with my CD player when I first got it, and after a week of serious play
Keep posting what you heard and don't worry about it; just keep an open mind about what is CAUSING the effects you hear. Break-in is hotly debated even for mechanical things like speakers. Every so often we learn that things aren't as black and white (or as "1" and "0") as we thought.
Obviously we try to understand what could be causing a "break-in" effect... and in cases where nobody can come up with a rational explanation of what might actually be changing there tends to be more doubt that there is a real break-in happening. The mind does do a surprising amount of adapting to new situations so in this case it's most likely this was your brain adapting to the new sound but don't get bullied into reporting what you think you should be hearing
