AVA Van Alstine SET 400 amplifier -- burn in?

@hilde45 Forgive my haste.  I actually auditioned the  FET Valve 400 amp, a step above the SET 400.  Good luck, look forward to your impressions.

I look forward to hear your thoughts on this amp. AVA is generally thought to be great value products. 

@corelli -- thanks for the clarification. This is solid state. I think Van Alstine's marketing technique of using SET for a solid state amp can be confusing.

@mesch  Thanks -- will relay. I've been using both Atoll and Adcom solid state which, as I understand it, are similar but not nearly identical.

you have salks now, that right, dave?

should be a very very nice match

enjoy!

@wjob I
have two of the AVA SET amps - I think they do settle in a bit with break in, but both sounded great out of the box.

Before sending them out, I wonder if AVA leaves them powered on for say 48-72hrs, re-checks specs and re-adjusts bias if required. Pass does this before shipping them out worldwide. If so, this might partially explain the "sounded great out of the box" comment a bit more. I’m with others about giving it at least a week of good run-in before making judgement.

For warmup, with every good Class A/AB MOSFET SS amp I’ve ever owned it took at least 1hr minimum warmup just to get started, and even better at 3-4hrs when transformers were good and saturated with heat would any type of wonder-wall of 3D type of magical sound kick in.

Your updates @hilde45 will be interesting. Should be fun.