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Do Interconnects need to "warm up"?

My system is left on most of the time and sometimes on standby. I noticed that when I first start to listen the sound is a bit bright. All of my IC's are balanced and single ended Silver Streaks, the components are Krell. It seems to take almost a half hour before the system seems to calm down where it then sounds smooth and sweet. So I was wondering, is it possible that IC's may need to warm up as some equipment does - your thoughts? Thanks!
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tbg
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Wolf_garcia, Spacial Coherence tried to do this with their linestage which took a very long time to settle down. It didn't work.

I would not use the phase, warm up, but when you disconnect cables or move them around, they definitely require some time, perhaps an hour to settle down. This really means that you need to A-B-A comparisons for cables to assure that cable A isn't advantaged. Or do long term A-B comparisons.
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