I have a pair of XA 160.5s which are just over a year old, fully broken in and sound great. I recently picked up a new pair of Magico S5 speakers which have a notoriously long break-in period so I've been running them more or less continuously for the past week and a half. It may be my imagination, listening fatigue, or an artifact of the Magico break-in but it seems to me that at some point the amps seem to lose a bit of their magical sound until I rest them (i.e. put them in standby and let them completely cool down for several hours at least). Do the amps experience any kind of "heat soak" or other effects that might change the sound over a prolonged listening period? What would be considered a prolonged listening period anyway? Any detrimental effect to the amps in such a case?
Good question, but hard to answer since I have only two sources - digital files and tuner (which never really sounds very good to me). I'd have to say yes though, it seems the issue was present with both sources.
it really can be everything , but amplifier
I'm not finding any sign of signal quality deterioration in time with Pass amps ;
after established temp. equilibrium , they're not changing
most probably your speakers are what is needing cooling period
I'm not finding any sign of signal quality deterioration in time with Pass amps ;
after established temp. equilibrium , they're not changing
most probably your speakers are what is needing cooling period
next time - disconnect speakers and leave amps on
after same time of cooling , as previously - connect speakers again and observe
after same time of cooling , as previously - connect speakers again and observe
Well yeah, there's that - but it's winter and the house needs the warmth anyway. 😀
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