Amplifier warm up

Two thoughts... you might be drinking the wrong wimpy Syrah... our house Syrah is DAVIS Family from Healdsburg. For a real Petite with correct spelling and California fruit, I can highly highly recommend a truckload batch from Romeo in Sequim WA from Lost Mountain Winery - it has cellared extremely well. Thanks for the correction 

It was the sulforaphane in the broccoli.

I have a new warm-up ritual now thanks to this thread. Before this I would turn on the amp, motor controller, and phono stage, all at least a half an hour before listening. Now I also let the motor/platter run almost as long. 

This has really made a difference in the quality of those first few minutes. There's still improvement across the first side, but its starting from a much higher level. 

Okay, don't want to exaggerate this too much. Its not like this is something everyone will even be able to notice. Obviously if we learn anything from threads like this its that there's all different levels of listeners. Some never will hear any difference. But for those who do, this is definitely worth doing.

I use tubes amps.  I warm them up no less than 15 minutes before use.  I also let the amps cool down for the same amount of time before powering down.  I started doing the warm up cool down many years ago and it increased my tube life nicely.

@vegasears 

have not heard of cool down concept for amps

not sure it matters, but pretty sure it doesn't hurt