Dummy Load

Jayctoy,

Thanks for your encouragement. I know it is going to take some time to break these in. ....Patience....Problem for me is I only get a few hours a week to play my system. At that rate, it will take months to pile up any time on the amps. I am not able to leave the system running through the speakers when I'm not home (WAF). So if I can run the system quietly, I can run it 24/7 and get the first 300 hours or so out of the way quickly.

I was home all last week and managed to play them quite a bit, so I'm up to about 70 hours on the amps. They are getting a bit more dynamic. There is a muddy distorted image in a small area of the middle frequencies, most noticable playing acoustic guitar tracks. I really want that part to go away. Patience....Patience...

All of the break-in issues aside, I can tell these amps are going to be special. I can hear flashes of brilliance in them.

Sean,

OK, 2 it is. I really don't know where the bias is set. I'll be talking with Klaus tomorrow so I'll ask him. Thanks again.

Rick

I have built the dummy load using the 20 watt 8 ohm Radio Shack resistors, 2 per channel. I mounted them on some screw down terminals and ran about 3' feet of speaker wire off of them. I managed to mount the terminals on wood blocks so there would be some airflow around the resistors. They have been running for about 2 hours with no noticable build up of heat. So I'll run these babies 24/7 and see if this speeds up the break in process at all.

Thanks again for all of you help!

Rick

Rick: As mentioned, you want to run the amp up where you would have your normal listening levels at. So long as the amp or resistors aren't over-heating, more volume would be better / help to speed up the process. Other than that, glad that things are going smoothly for you. Sean
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Rick get a piece of cloth, cover the blue light,
so your wife cant tell if they are off.You have to
be more creative.You really need to put them on 24/7.
It helps.I hope you got my email.Enjoy