Some components operate at their peak performance at a specific stabilized temperature. The same way an athlete warms up prior to competition or exercise.
Can anyone explain in laymans terms why your gear sound better after warm up
I get burn in... should be called burn off just to get the manufacturing process off all the different manufacturers and parts to sweat off the packaging and sealants. But a light bulb is on or off. So SS gear in theory should sound the same. A light bulb does not get brighter after an hour. Is it your ears get programmed? Or is there and actual technical reason that it sounds better? Please pretend Im a four year old cause with Electronics I am.
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For SS devices, I see no rationale for any sort of warm up period. For vacuum tubes, this is not the case. It takes about ten minutes at least for tubes to stabilize. My amplifier has separate LED's for each output tube for bias adjustment and it takes about ten minutes for all of them to light up indicating that they are at their required voltage state and never do all four of them light at the same time; each reaches its operating parameters at different times after being energized. There's probably also some "warm up" rationale for conventional cone type speakers in the sense that the stiffness of the surrounds as well as the cone structure itself will "loosen up" after a period of time, but the speaker has moving parts, so this is a rational assumption. Same thing with the engine in your car; it's not at its optimum operating state immediately after start up. And this is all a layman's opinion. |
Yup, this is what we need, yet another thread on a well-worn topic: How long daes it take your gear to warm up? Warm-up time for amps and preamps Is it the beer or do speakers/electronics really need some extended warm-up period? Speaker Break-In - What Physically Changes During Break-In To Enable Better Sound? Burning/breaking in new equipment? Do Interconnects need to "warm up"? Equipment Break-in: Fact or Fiction Break in blues Value of burn/break in? ... and the list goes on and on and on and on ... |
I know there is brain conditioning that happens with sound waves and your ears sending electrical impulses... be interesting if any ear specialist have tested this with Audio systems. Agree 100 percent with "
bsmg" Tubes are a different animal all together. I have had my share. |
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