1st Tube amp question

always have a load on a tube amp.

Why would would you want to waste tube life (a very finite thing) breaking it in. Just sit back and enjoy the music.

Just hook up the system and play music.

You may very well observe changes in the SQ (both bad and good) over the next 200 hours, or so.

I just did this with some oddball gear for a newly put together mini system for our spare bed/computer room.

The SQ has improved considerably over the past 3 weeks.

DeKay

@immatthewj ...support guy from Cary (this was a few years ago when you could actually speak to someone from Cary on the phone about issues) related to a Cary V12...".

It’s a bummer, isn’t it... argh. That helpful person left the Co, I kept in touch after. He was getting a lot of customer calls, with pressure from his boss to stay off the phone to finish up on other design projects. A balance is always needed I guess. As a company, what they misunderstood is customer service is king and employee retention of key employees is critical. And now, to your point. Lesson learned there, one can only hope, in time. Now he talks to whoever he wants designing and building other products. Be respectful to all employees and helpful to your high performers, or they’ll leave.

NO! 

@decooney 

Were you referring to Dennis?  Actually that was not Dennis that I talked to the last time.  That was in the fall of '17 I took that amp out of mothballs & felt the need to call Cary to clarify something, & I think by then, Dennis had already left.

I remember after I bought my first Cary amp in (I think '94), Cary provided great customer tech support (thank you, Kirk Owens, wherever you are), and because of that tech support, I bought 3 other Cray products & had them do upgrades and even also bought tubes from them.

I had sworn Cary off, but recently I couldn't resist a preowned SLP 05 from their site.  Oh well, it probably isn't just Cary; I wouldn't be surprised if that's most of them now-a-days.