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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!
rpg
wolf_garcia
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Well mister "Ted Denney III"...prior to a show you should rent a truck, put the entire entire system in it powered with a generator, drive it fired up all the way to the audio show, carry the whole damn thing in there while it's still running, and then quickly switch the AC to the room power. Then you'd get some respect!

Yours as a musician,
Wolfgang Amadeus Garcia, Esq. Phd BFD WTF
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marakanetz
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Bravo, Maestro WAG! LOL!
hifihvn
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I also agree with what "Brf" said in the above post. I was in a dealer that had a system running all day long that sounded a little bright. After listening to it for ~10 minutes, that little hint of bright of sound it had, was hardly noticeable afterward.
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.
wolf_garcia
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It is good to know it takes a while for my cables to settle down once I disconnect them. Not sure why...but it's good.
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