Amp burn-in..Best technique


I will soon be getting my new Mcintosh MC591's. I am curious,......does it matter how loud you play? If I run a CD on continuous repeat,...does it matter if I turn it way down? Or does that not offer enough resistance/load to drive to have a "break-in" effect. My wife would not be happy if I had my system playing at high levels all day.
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Greetings everyone

Sorry to bump this old thread but I need some help.

My question is when doing amplifier burn-in is it better to have the amplifier put out varying wattage or put out stable wattage? I’d be keeping the volume at the same level.

Some background.

I have a Kavent P-3300 solid state amplifier that has meters in the front that show how much wattage the amp is putting out. When I have my CD player playing music at a reasonable volume level the meters would show .04 to .06 watts and it would stay that way throughout the songs.

Now when I stream the same music from my laptop via the Outlaw Audio OAW-3 Wireless Audio System the meters go wild. I’ll see the meters go from .02 to up to 7.0 depending on the parts of the song. I play good to high quality recordings on youtube. When I saw the difference in wattage I kept the volume the same on my preamp when I played the same music from my laptop and on the CD.

Info on the Outlaw Audio OAW3.

http://www.outlawaudio.com/products/OAW3.html

So would it be better to burn-in the amp by playing music that will make it put out varying wattage or steady wattage? If I do one way or the other would I be doing the burn-in for the same amount of time?

Thanks in advance and if I’m missing some details let me know.
Hey everyone.

Thanks for sharing and taking it easy on me. Some posts made me smile.

Points taken. I'm just going to play music whether it be streaming from a computer, CD or Turntable sit back relax and enjoy the music. I don't have a cassette player anymore to play music from.

I'm really fighting the urge though to try the burn-in method Jl35 did for his Pass X250.5.