How do I break in a new amplifier?

[stereophonicfan]

Amplifiers don't need a break in! This is just "Audio Mythology" " Audio Hyperbole" "Audio Mumbo Jumbo"". There is no scientific numbers or data that says other wise!!! Don't believe the manufacturer, what do they know. There part of the "Audio Mythology", "Audio Hyperbole", and " Audio Mumbo Jumbo".
BLAH, BLAH, BLAH!!!

Now, here is what I really think! Trun it on and leave it on, 24/7 365, unless you go on vacation. I leave all my equipment on that way.

As for bass response, what were you expecting?

Also, what do you consider good bass response, and or involving bass response?

Lastly, did you demo the unit prior to your purchase? If so, how was its bass response?

Amplifiers do need to be broken in. No matter what the quality is or brand. Certain parts, like in any other device, need to be charged. This is merely for practical reasons. Some amps have been stored in dusty places, to cold, to hot or other inappropriate conditions. The electric feed and circuits are sensitive to this (depending on the type of amp, tube are different than non-tubes or plain console-amps).
My advice: go easy, a third of the amp power ('volume' as max) for quite several hours (10 to 15 hours). After that your off on a good start.

[mtrycraft]

Amplifiers do need to be broken in. No matter what the quality is or brand. Certain parts, like in any other device, need to be charged. This is merely for practical reasons. Some amps have been stored in dusty places, to cold, to hot or other inappropriate conditions. The electric feed and circuits are sensitive to this (depending on the type of amp, tube are different than non-tubes or plain console-amps).
My advice: go easy, a third of the amp power ('volume' as max) for quite several hours (10 to 15 hours). After that your off on a good start.

Total nonsense. You have no evidence that this is so. A maker making claims without evidence is not evidence. Neither is you claim.

[Geoffcin]

Total nonsense. You have no evidence that this is so. A maker making claims without evidence is not evidence. Neither is you claim.

You don't know what your talking about. Have you ever designed an amplifier? Ever sold one? Ever graduated with a degree in electrical engineering? The designers of the Cambridge Audio amp have, and they state that their amp needs 36 hrs of breakin. If you are calling them liers, then YOU better have evidence to back it up.

Oh, and just in case your wondering I have documented proof by my own ears, and the ears of several friends of my, some of who are professional musicians that YOU are wrong.

[mtrycraft]

The designers of the Cambridge Audio amp have, and they state that their amp needs 36 hrs of breakin. If you are calling them liers, then YOU better have evidence to back it up.

Actually, they are the ones that better have the evidence that their design needs 36 hours to break in. Hogwash. Of course they don't have that evidence, or they would post the results of their DBt data comparing a brand new one and one with 36 hours on it.
Oh, their claim is just marketing voodoo, mythology. I will certainly stay away from their components, thanks.

Oh, and just in case your wondering I have documented proof by my own ears, and the ears of several friends of my, some of who are professional musicians that YOU are wrong.

More hogwash. You have speculations, claims, unreliable at that, not proof. Where is it published?

[Geoffcin]

Total nonsense. You have no evidence that this is so. A maker making claims without evidence is not evidence. Neither is you claim.

Oh, here's a quote from a man who has designed some of the most incredible amps ever made. His name is Nelson Pass, and this quote is from the owners manual of his latest amp the X series.

"People are interested in how long it takes for these amplifiers to break in. It takes about an hour for them to warm up, and this is where we adjust them first. Then we adjust them again and again over a couple of days, keeping the bias and offset in the sweet spot."

Sounds like he not only breaks the amps in for 48 house for you, but adjusts them after break-in. Perhaps he's just wasting his time? I think not.

[bturk667]

If your looking for some kind of intelligent discourse, well, you picked the wrong person. There is none to found with mtrycrafts. Don't waste the few I.Q. points it takes to debate mtrycrafts. Trust me, I've tried, he is not worth them. I've never read anything intelligent that HE has written, EVER! Trust me, save the two or three I.Q. points you'll need to debate his vast intellect, for say a discussion with a sponge. Sorry, sponges are absorbent, say a rock!

[mtrycraft]

If your looking for some kind of intelligent discourse, well, you picked the wrong person. There is none to found with mtrycrafts. Don't waste the few I.Q. points it takes to debate mtrycrafts. Trust me, I've tried, he is not worth them. I've never read anything intelligent that HE has written, EVER! Trust me, save the two or three I.Q. points you'll need to debate his vast intellect, for say a discussion with a sponge. Sorry, sponges are absorbent, say a rock!

You would recognize anything intelligent? LOL

[thepogue]

i think Mark stated that it has more to do w/room treatment and speaker positon....i wit him on this issue...