Can anyone explain in laymans terms why your gear sound better after warm up

As you can see above, even engineers debate this. We have many possible theories, but no actual definitive answers, because no valid testing has (or will) be done. Its completely and costly.

But there  are many possibilities:

1. temperature consistency
2. bias consistency, depends on above
3. capacitors "forming"

Among many others. I can watch the bias move around greatly during warm up on prototypes under development, and I can also watch the noise floor fall - for both known and unknown reasons. So*something* is happening, I have my theories.

I'll leave this brief.

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Did anyone mention the new Danny Richie video posted on Tuesday tech talk ? He just went over drivers and made some comments on expensive caps . Seemed like he was going to tackle caps , resistors in the near future

@almarg...Al, I thought your answer was perfect. I have learned so much from you over the MANY years we have been on this forum.

Thanks for being here!

"Temperature is a parameter that is fundamental to the physics of transistors, analog and digital integrated circuits, and other semiconductor devices. Consequently their behavior varies significantly as a function of temperature, and a competent designer will design the product to perform at its best when it has warmed up to a stable internal temperature, while being used in a room that is at a normal room temperature."

That’s pretty easy to understand.

Also please refrain from attacking those who offer sound detailed technical information relevant to the topic at hand just because you prefer to wing it and expect others to accept your opinions regarding little known, expensive and controversial products.

No engineers, no hifi. Cut and dry. Winging it alone won’t cut it. That should be pretty easy to understand as well. Or one might try smearing some expensive carbon goop on a pair of tin cans connected by a wire and find out how good things can sound.