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Burning in question

I bought an NAD M33 for a system in a 2nd home.  I want to run it in before installing and these amps are notorious for needing a lot of time before sounding as designed.  

The speaker terminals on the M33 won’t accept my ribbon cables.  I’m curious if any of you have an opinion or experience to share.  Will an amp burn in just being on, but without a load at the taps, and without playing/streaming a file?

For those who think burn in is hooey, please just kindly move along - nothing to see or hear, here.

Best to all,

 

mgrif104

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Burning in question

I bought an NAD M33 for a system in a 2nd home. I want to run it in before installing and these amps are notorious for needing a lot of time before sounding as designed.

For burn-in you need current traveling through circuit electronic components to burn them in.

You will need to feed the inputs with a music signal source.

You will need a load connected to the outputs on the amp. You could probably use a dummy load. An 8 ohm resistor connected to each channel output. Wattage? Depends on how hard you drive the amp. I would think a moderate level would be enough. I have always just used the speakers for burn-in.

I see on Ebay 50 and 100 watt 8 ohm resistors are pretty cheap.

Hopefully some one will chime in for the wattage needed.

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