@stevea11757
If I had to guess, were your former cables more veiled over, less transparent sounding, as compared to your new cables? What were your former cables by the way - and were they old bulky copper cables from 80s/90s, or early to mid 2000 years by chance?
If so, your experience is not unreasonable. Now you can hear it more so with the new cables during first 60 minutes of warmup of the 260.8, and the rest of the system warming up if you are turning all of it on cold and listening in 5 min. Nobody I know listens critically to Pass < 60 min. Several comment it’s not great until at least 4-8hrs warmup. Others, as already mentioned run it 24x7. All my former SS Mosfets based amps were better @8hrs+. If I left them on 24hrs+ letting the transformers really become heat saturated, another level achieved in some perplexing ways. Others have mentioned this here. Often noted for .5 and .8 amps from Pass. Same for older Threshold and some of the Adcom and Nakamichi Stasis designed amps too.
I too use my MD tuner for warmup, and sounds pretty rough until it’s been warmed up for at least 45-60 min, minimum. Same as the 260.8.
Sure, I can go throw a pair of high capacitance veiled over copper interconnects or [longer] veiled speaker cables on my current system (did it this weekend) and make it sound tolerable first 5-30 minutes of warmup, it’s just masking what’s there. Then, go put ultra transparent ICs or speaker cables back on and it sounds horrible the first 5-15 minutes of cold startup. I bet your new cables are revealing more of what is "there" during cold startup. Just a guess... I recently sold a pair of my last and most lush and veiled over Cardas Golden Cross interconnects to a guy with a Pass 260.8 [he wanted to "take the edge off" with streaming high resolution content]. As edgy as a cold MD tuner.
Found a review on your cables - said to be much more revealing ?:
"Dynamics were explosive. Yet, there was detail that I never heard with any wire in my experience. This detail was sorted and separated so well, I was floored."
If I had to guess, were your former cables more veiled over, less transparent sounding, as compared to your new cables? What were your former cables by the way - and were they old bulky copper cables from 80s/90s, or early to mid 2000 years by chance?
If so, your experience is not unreasonable. Now you can hear it more so with the new cables during first 60 minutes of warmup of the 260.8, and the rest of the system warming up if you are turning all of it on cold and listening in 5 min. Nobody I know listens critically to Pass < 60 min. Several comment it’s not great until at least 4-8hrs warmup. Others, as already mentioned run it 24x7. All my former SS Mosfets based amps were better @8hrs+. If I left them on 24hrs+ letting the transformers really become heat saturated, another level achieved in some perplexing ways. Others have mentioned this here. Often noted for .5 and .8 amps from Pass. Same for older Threshold and some of the Adcom and Nakamichi Stasis designed amps too.
I too use my MD tuner for warmup, and sounds pretty rough until it’s been warmed up for at least 45-60 min, minimum. Same as the 260.8.
Sure, I can go throw a pair of high capacitance veiled over copper interconnects or [longer] veiled speaker cables on my current system (did it this weekend) and make it sound tolerable first 5-30 minutes of warmup, it’s just masking what’s there. Then, go put ultra transparent ICs or speaker cables back on and it sounds horrible the first 5-15 minutes of cold startup. I bet your new cables are revealing more of what is "there" during cold startup. Just a guess... I recently sold a pair of my last and most lush and veiled over Cardas Golden Cross interconnects to a guy with a Pass 260.8 [he wanted to "take the edge off" with streaming high resolution content]. As edgy as a cold MD tuner.
Found a review on your cables - said to be much more revealing ?:
"Dynamics were explosive. Yet, there was detail that I never heard with any wire in my experience. This detail was sorted and separated so well, I was floored."