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Equipment break in question

To break in a piece of equipment such as a DAC, do you need to turn on your amp and actually play music through your speakers?  Does it work to just play a disc silently without using  the amp and speakers?  What about just turning on a component such as a DAC and leaving it on without playing anything?
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jea48
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You need to feed a digital signal to the DAC and have cables connected to the analog output jacks connected to the amp. If an integrated amp is used set the source input to the CDT/DAC. The amp does not need to be turned on. (That is unless the amp defaults to a different source input when powered off.)

The DAC needs a load on its’ analog outputs for burn-in. If the amp is solid state just leave it on with the volume turned all the way down. CDT set on repeat all.

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