bryston warm up time

I used Bryston for years and found that they are best left on or warm them up for about 10 minutes before you use them. I would check your speaker connections just to make sure they are tight.

Further to my above post, I had a Bryston 4B-ST for six years. I left it on 24/7 except for electrical storms and times when I would not be home for a week or more at a time. When I would power it up after such down times, it would take a day to reach full performance.

Assuming the amp is used in a revealing system (and that is an assumption here), I am not aware of any solid-state amp, not even an amp with a stand-by function coming out of stand-by (my Rowland 6's, for example), that will sound completely right until it's been running at full idle for two or three hours, and this is the exception. It can take a very long time for caps to fully charge and for the unit to fully come up to temperature.

If a person is not hearing the difference between a solid-state amp that's only been for a very short time and one that's been on for a few days, some limitation elsewhere in the system is the cause (or all that time he/she spent on the firing range shooting clay pidgeons before getting into audio ... :) ).

Remember: When it's on, it's wearing out.

For those of you who missed it the first time, read this:

http://forum.audiogon.com/cgi-bin/fr.pl?aamps&1129360866&openmine&zz

>>Hpims
Remember: When it's on, it's wearing out.<<

The same can be said for human beings but we don't sleep 24/7 do we?