Amp burn-in..Best technique

I agree Gliderguider. If I am buying a piece of equipment that I know I am going to keep for a while. I will do exactly that. The McIntosh MC501 is one of the best, great sound! By the way I have one coming my way. Noonan, you will certainly enjoy it. Just let it break in naturally and enjoy the music.

Greetings everyone

Sorry to bump this old thread but I need some help.

My question is when doing amplifier burn-in is it better to have the amplifier put out varying wattage or put out stable wattage? I’d be keeping the volume at the same level.

Some background.

I have a Kavent P-3300 solid state amplifier that has meters in the front that show how much wattage the amp is putting out. When I have my CD player playing music at a reasonable volume level the meters would show .04 to .06 watts and it would stay that way throughout the songs.

Now when I stream the same music from my laptop via the Outlaw Audio OAW-3 Wireless Audio System the meters go wild. I’ll see the meters go from .02 to up to 7.0 depending on the parts of the song. I play good to high quality recordings on youtube. When I saw the difference in wattage I kept the volume the same on my preamp when I played the same music from my laptop and on the CD.

Info on the Outlaw Audio OAW3.

http://www.outlawaudio.com/products/OAW3.html

So would it be better to burn-in the amp by playing music that will make it put out varying wattage or steady wattage? If I do one way or the other would I be doing the burn-in for the same amount of time?

Thanks in advance and if I’m missing some details let me know.

My guess would be to plug and play as recommended per manufactures standard instructions. Be that as it may, subjecting your amp to gangster rap or death metal during it's developmental formative break-in period may result in severe behavioral problems later.

The way to break in any component is to use it as you normally would. That means cycling the power. Leaving equipment on for 100's of hours at a time doesn't help. Just use it and enjoy it.

For my Pass X250.5 I was told to run it 24 hours a day for 4 days, then for the next 4 days to run it 16 hours and turn it off (not standby) for 8 hours. This was supposed to break it in 90% - 95%.