06-11-11: Wolf_garcia
System refresher disc? Wow...I play music through my rig all day (if I'm home) so when guests arrive they have a warmed up system to ignore while I bore the crap out of them describing how cool it all is."
Hey, we have the same friends!" |
System refresher disc? Wow...I play music through my rig all day (if I'm home) so when guests arrive they have a warmed up system to ignore while I bore the crap out of them describing how cool it all is. Then I change the belt on my Linn to the 45 spool and force them to listen to a single I played on from 1981 that was released only in Japan. |
very funny Audiofeil:)
Break in, in some cases yes, warm up? not in my experience, probably the electronics. Funny thing about that phenomenon as well, some electronics it is quite obvious there is a warm-up period, ARC amps for instance. So far as my Berning amp I don't notice this at all. |
Interconnects definitely need to be warmed up.
Cable foreplay is a necessary element of the complete audio experience.
The female connectors may take a bit longer to reach peak performance.
Good luck. |
Blkadr:
That reminds me of the deadliest joke in the world from a Monty Python sketch.
"My dog had its nose bitten off yesterday."
"How does he smell?" the friend asked.
"Awful!" |
I'm with the amp and other electronic equipment is warming up group. There is more warm up during listening, than standby. If you have air conditioning, try setting it cooler when you start listening. That will cool the cables (if cooler air gets to them) during component warm up, and see what happens |
That reminds me, I bumped into an atom walking down the street yesterday. I asked "Are you alright?".
"I think I lost an electron" was the reply. I asked "Are you sure?".
The answer? "I'm positive" of course. |
I doubt that the interconnects need the warm-up. However, they need some time to settle, that's if you just put them in the system let them be for a while. How long? It depends. |
I really don't think ICs need a warm up time but one thing I do when I know people are coming over to listen to music or watch a movie I'll have my system on an hour before playing music or I'll run an Isotek system refresher disk for that hour before anyone arrives. This way pretty much everything is going to have a signal passing through it. |
You can use 'Keep Warm' settings on your slow cooker so you don't have to worm them up every time. |
It has been my experience that the components will change to a warmer sound after an hour or so of listening, not the cables, but I can't say with certainty that the cables don't warm up and change also.
I leave my system powered on so I get the best performance as soon as I start to listen. However, I am not using a Krell which I would not leave on when not in use.
Good Luck.
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I always try to let my system warm up for an hour or so when people come over to listen. Rather I'm there or not for the warm up, the system always sounds better.
I would expect that the speakers are the main component that benefit from a warm up, but I can see how the components could have internal parts that need to reach an equilibrium. |
It's the Twilight Zone of ICs where strange unmeasurable things seem to happen all the time. Who knows? I would just listen to the music and not loose any sleep over it. |
It sounds like your ears are just getting acclimated to the sound. |
Sebrof, excellent point, never thought about the speakers warming up, it's probably most likely that? |
I'm "warming up" leftovers from last night for breakfast !!!!! :) |
I would guess that if anything is warming up it would be the speakers. |
Use another set of interconnects for a warm up and then switch to the cold interconnects and see if the system sounds "cold." It shouldn't matter what interconnect you use so I'm sure you have something that would work. |
