I am getting some new tubes for my amp, and I want to do a 24-hour burn in. How?

@rodman99999 @hilde45 

thanks guys. They are to come in on friday.

Ill probably go with @petg60 

Burning in while listening also adds to your experience. The process can be quite subtle, very obvious, or something in between and you gain more understanding hearing the changes.

+1 @melvinjames 

One of the interesting things about this hobby for me is trying to pay attention to different stages of break-in.

People who I know who have been in this hobby for a long time will talk about the various changes that tubes and cables can go through before they reach a level of maturity.

I think that kind of self education and how things sound is a wonderful part of the hobby and it serves well for down the road because one becomes more sophisticated about what they're hearing and what perhaps is causing it.

Why waste tube life during "burn in"? When is that over? Who even knows? How bad can it sound? Just play it and listen. If you must leave it on when not listening so be it. Hifi is supposed to be for enjoyment so enjoy it to the max always. You don’t need advice from strangers to do that.  It's always a good idea to have spare tubes around because you can never know for sure when a tube will go or start to develop issues that might be heard.

OP the 24 hour break in is actually a burn in. One of the few times "Burn in" actually applies. The RIGHT way to "CHECK" new valves is to BURN them in for 24 hours.  So when you see the "Burn In 24 hours" they actually are or they were suppose to have been.

They set up grids and let them percolate for 24 hours. Normally keeping an eye on drift and then they write down the numbers and match for sets.

It was for failure that is the only reason for "BURN IN". If there is no failure then they go in a a unit and  "BRAKE IN" the rest of the way.  The truth of it is usually by 24 hours or so, how that valve is going to act and sound is pretty close. They don't change sonically very much after that..

SO from a "seeing if they are going to fail" perspective it is important to leave them on for 24 hours STRAIGHT..  

From a break in perspective it is just about TIME, your doing two different things...

I say plug and play...  AND KEEP and eye out for the first couple of hours.. Vary the volume a bit. Shut down and push the valves into the sockets.  I do it every now and then.. Nice firm valve seating, and wipe them off. 

Regards