How long daes it take your gear to warm up?


Assuming that one turns off/on the audio equipment every day. How long does it take for your gear to perform as it best after a cold start? I ask because my Rotels RA-1090 need about 2 hr to really shine, otherwise the highs are ear piercing and the bass notes lack some punch. Any of you have to go through a similar time of warm up period?
tiofelon
It really depends on the gear. Solid state gear takes far more time than tube gear, one reason why most people leave solid state gear on all the time.

My CD player, in particular, takes a long time to sound good. The manufacturer says that it should be powered up all the time (they claim it takes at least 24 hours to be fully on song).

I have found, in the past, that solid state amps take a good half hour to forty-five minutes to sound decent whereas my tube amps take about ten to twenty minutes to sound good.
I give my gear 45 mins to an hour of warm up time. Most of the time during warm up I'll play the ISOTEK Full System Enhancer Burn-In CD. It is about an hour long.
There is a big difference between tubes and solid state. I own some solid state equipment that takes 3 days to sound its best. However, my tube equipment is stablized after a couple of hours.
About 45 minutes. And that is for a tube pre and a big Krell 300cx SS amp. The Krell uses too much power even on standby to leave on all day, plus the heat from Class A . . .

Neal
Approx 3 Seconds for solid state. My parent's tube table radio used to take about a minute to even start playing. But that was 60 years ago!