Yes... that will make your head hurt! love "2D" that was coined in the posts. Fascinating read... Thanks for the head ache... haha Just kidding I enjoyed it! Straight Vulcan Science Center.
Can anyone explain in laymans terms why your gear sound better after warm up
I get burn in... should be called burn off just to get the manufacturing process off all the different manufacturers and parts to sweat off the packaging and sealants. But a light bulb is on or off. So SS gear in theory should sound the same. A light bulb does not get brighter after an hour. Is it your ears get programmed? Or is there and actual technical reason that it sounds better? Please pretend Im a four year old cause with Electronics I am.
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Pretty sure its gonna take an PhD EE X 3 / Designer or Nelson Pass to give us a real answer here about Solid State gear and warm up . A perfectly natural enough assumption to make. In fact they're the last ones to ask. Not that there aren't any bona fide EE audiophiles. There are. But look around. A lot of the best guys in high end are just regular guys with no formal training just a profound love of music and sound. Not to mention when those guys answer a question, well you said you got 85% of my answer, need to look up 15%. Which you should! Always say DYODD! But try asking a EE. I'll be surprised if you get 15%. Heck a lot of those guys even I don't understand that much. (Its not us- its them.) A nd I personally think music sounds better with beer. Haha! Please lets not debate Amber or Stout. No argument there. You can pour me a black and tan any time. |
So sad to learn of your affliction, almarg. But you did ask: Was there something that wasn't clear in my answer? Which I presume is what passes for humor among engineers? Because here is your "answer" quoted directly from above: For an example of how transistor behavior is a function of temperature see the paragraph entitled "Ebers-Moll model" in this Wikipedia writeup on bipolar transistors, and note the capital "T" (for temperature) in the various equations. The OP specifically asks for "in layman's terms" but you being an engineer are so far removed from that you cannot answer at all without "behavior is a function of temperature see the paragraph entitled "Ebers-Moll model" in (Wiki link) yada yada. In other words almarg your "answer" is so freaking UNCLEAR that instead of making it clear you muddy up the water until its so murky you give up and send the reader off to research links! Okay. I get it. EE humor. Don't quit your day job! And oh by the way, yes I actually do understand your answer. Which is how I know its wrong. Because if it was right all you would have to do is run a blow drier over the SS device, which would warm it up, and it would sound just dandy. Which it don't. Because your EE answer, in addition to being clear as mud, is wrong. |
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