Doh, left system off all night

todd -
I'm using ICEPower ASP 250 based amps.

Thanks! 

Erik,

I had reported that my system reached its maximum SQ about 1.5 hours after turning it on, so why I don't leave it on. I need to retract that statement.

I accidentally left my system on all weekend when visiting our children out of town, and when we got back my knee-jerk was to shut it down, but instead played my new Ben Allison LP (Newvelle) which I had left on my TT. So, the last thing I listened to before spacing out my system.

The SQ improvement was big, so I wanted to let you know this even though my post was back in December.
Kenny

I remember old carbureted engines that had a manual choke and had trouble starting on cold mornings. Amazing that they fixed this with modern technology.

Sad that some audio equipment should be still so poorly designed as to sound terrible until after an extended warm up. I have read that Class D is very difficult to do right and hard to build with reliable performance. A bit like Class AB is significantly more likely to have problems than Class A. Although Class AB is pretty good these days.

My rig is composed of items designed well enough so they sound great from morning start up, and since I don't necessarily listen closely before I've been up for a while I have no idea if the rig improves, but I don't care. I've, of course, come home after being out with the stuff turned off, but even then I generally do other things before listening. It's off all night, except for the "sleeping" REL subs as I prefer the electrons stay away from my gear when they're unsupervised as I can't trust pesky unsupervised electrons. Besides, my SEP tube amp deserves a break.