Doh, left system off all night


Today I've been really unhappy with the sound of my system. Bass is too bloated and treble is scratchy. I was racking my head trying to figure out what I changed.

Took me an hour to remember I left the system off for about 24 hours. Doh!

Erik
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o_holter - Tubes don't have the warm-up problems that ss does.  My experience is that tubes take a max of an hour or two to reach their envelope of best performance.  Solid state can take 10 times that long or longer.  So tubes can be MUCH more economical to get to good listening than solid state.
Tube gear takes about half an hour to 45 minutes. Solid state amps sometimes take a few hours of playing music, sometimes a lot less. But once the amps are on and warmed up, they don’t need continuous music.  I usually leave them on 24/7 and don't have to worry about warm-up.

But the SS DAC!!! ughhh... That needs a few hours of music to warm up and continuous play to stay that way. I’m getting a new DAC so I’m not too worried about it.
Lalit,

I cannot disclose the DAC I will get because it will end up being somebody's prototype.  But the DAC I have been using is an out of production modified Douk.  There might have been others better, but not in my system.  

String...   nice feature.  My Herron amps don't draw much when just sitting in the man-cave at idle.  i just walk down stairs and turn on the preamp, phono stage and start the turntable spinning an hour or so before I go down to do any serious listening.