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Stupid Mistake

I have been doing a demo with Merrill Audio Element 116's. Excellent amps on several levels. After around a week I went back to my Classe' CA M600s. They were off for about 7 days, the longest they have been off for aprox. 4 years. I played 5 tracks with the 116's and then hooked up the Classe's and played the same 5 tracks. The Classe' sounded lifeless! Also take into consideration Class D and Class AB. I was stunned. I hooked the 116's back up.
Well it finally dawned on me last night! The amps were stone cold! No wonder they sounded lifeless! Been playing in the Audio world for a long time! And I make a bone headed blunder like that! Needless to say got up at 4:30am switched some things around and warmed up the Classe' Amps. Now my evaluation may be more accurate! Still shaking my head...
jakesnak
hshifi
572 posts
 
Hello,
I was thought this by a man selling Really high end SS amps. They were the size of carry on suit cases. I wanted to listen to another set of amps. With his permission to touch the components I unplugged the amps and used the cables on something else. He went ballistic due to he had a customer bringing a set of 2ohm speakers to the store to audition the amps. When we plugged them back in just an hour later that sounded completely different than before. He said it takes three days before they are fully warmed up. I definitely heard the difference! Thank god for balanced cables. It impossible to mess up the direction as long as the manufacturing built them correctly. 
midareff1
182 posts
 
LOL..  if my amps have been off the whole system sounds constipated and screachy.  Give em 20 minutes or so and it's a different world.
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danvignau
935 posts
 
I definately remember the differences I hear. That does not mean I cannot adapt and enjoy my second best preamp ot my third, a Bryston, but I do recognize and can describe the differences.  
tuberculin
81 posts
 
There's no such thing as warm-up,
@millercarbon is slinging his baloney around again. Of course there is warm up. Tubes take time to warm up, at least 15-20 minutes and and hour is most ideal. SS takes longer. That's why leaving on SS equipment is good.
And differences are easily discernible, maybe not for him, but for most people. He speaks like his is the only way and the only knowledge. There is a guy like that in the bible born 2000 years ago.
Chuck Miller is a know-it-all that knows very little. He is a troll.
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jayctoy
3,816 posts
 
Rodman 99999 it’s a mistake for doing nothing, that’s laziness TR..
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