Debate: Class D amps need 48 hours of warmup


Have you listened to your amps cold? Warm? Both ways?  What was your experience? I’ll hold my own observations to not bias the replies. 

Did you leave them off while on vacation and then come back to find they sounded hard and strident? 

erik_squires

OK, guys, I know this is sounds like a weird question, but lets’ not attack the replies, or even the author, until we’ve seen informed replies.  This kind of judgementalism is really not what I was looking for when I posted. 

Nobody is attacking anybody here.  You’ve somehow made this up in your own mind.  

I swear my ice power sound better after days playing music.  Like 3 or 4 days. 

@soix and lets keep it that way. 

@jbuhl - That's exactly my experience, but it's limited to ICEpower.  My Hypex, cold sound better, but do seem to benefit from playing all night long.  You and I are not the only one's who've made that observation about ICEpower specifically.  I was kind of wondering if it was something unique to the brand and was really hoping others with other brands have had a chance to experiment.  

In my case, I found this out by accident.  I would normally leave4 my amps running all the time,  but when  I went away for a vacation I unplugged my whole rack. I came back and I thought something was broken.  I wonder also if certain class D amps take that long to warm up if it could be part of the complaints users have. 

No experience with class D amps but every Class A or A/B amplifier ever owned tube or solid state needed at least about an hour to sound its bes. As to Class D, I would think that you can just keep it on 24/7 no?

@erik_squires after an extended period of time unplugged the amp or dac or preamp takes longer I agree. At least 24 hrs.