Amp burn-in..Best technique

10-05-11: Jedinite24
"My question is when doing amplifier burn-in is it better to have the amplifier put out varying wattage or put out stable wattage?"

You should vary the wattage in 20% increments in what is simalar to a star pattern you tighten wheel lugnuts in: 50% max power to 30% to 70% to 10% to 90%, then repeat. Do not go over 90% or below 10% for the first 4 days, then ONLY go from below 10% to above 90% for the remaining 4 days of break in.

Or you could just play the damned thing.

I think it's interesting to listen to an amp or other component as it breaks in...unless it sucks so bad before break in you can't take it (recently had some balanced cables with precisely that issue...they were banned forever from my system in one day). My Silverline speakers took a while to develop their mojo, as did my Kavent preamp...both eventually found their way, and I'm glad.

Hey everyone.

Thanks for sharing and taking it easy on me. Some posts made me smile.

Points taken. I'm just going to play music whether it be streaming from a computer, CD or Turntable sit back relax and enjoy the music. I don't have a cassette player anymore to play music from.

I'm really fighting the urge though to try the burn-in method Jl35 did for his Pass X250.5.