Digital amps overhyped ?

Regarding burn-in, I left Rowland Continuum 500 playing music 24/7 for two weeks to achieve 300-hours, from which point I've noted no further improvement. It's easy to set the volume down to where it's barely audible and just let it run a CD on repeat.

BTW, the Continuum 500 runs around 120-degrees in the armoire where I have it installed. That's much warmer than most ICEPower units, thanks to the Power Factor Correction unit intergral to the C500. Most ICEPower amps DO require more time to burn-in than the Continuum.

Dave

Classe30,don't take any offense,but 7 times 26 weeks or 6 months comes to 182 hours. This is about right for me. The point I was
making to the gentleman was it does need a little time to
break in.

I have the Gilmore Raven and it is class D modified Icepower, but with a massive analog power supply. I could not be happier with it - it's fed by a Supratek Chenin tube preamp.

samski,
the only 'digital' amp that know that is really worth the hype is the Red Wine Audio 30.2 - http://www.redwineaudio.com/Signature_30.2.html
i've tried ice amps, UcD, nuforce and even other tripath amps but none come even remotely close to the RWA, which i own and love and dont even consider it class-d or whatever. it is a musical component that approaches the tonal qualities of tubes but is better than tubes in quite a few aspects. the only thing is if you need high power it might not be enough but it is surprisingly powerful for its power rating.

-Nate