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

Mine power up instantly. They do not run warm so waiting for warm up is not logical. 

I own(ed) six different class d  amplifiers, all of them need very considerable amount of time to sound at their best. I also own(ed) class a class a b, tube amplifiers, they need drastically less time to sound at the best, and the tube ones are the fastest  in warming up, except that you need to wait a few minutes before the tubes get hot enough.

(Facepalm)..

Play this Megadeth track 2 or 3 times at 95 db or 100 db and your amp should heat up in no time...shouldn't take more than 10 mins

https://music.youtube.com/watch?v=govjgzqRNa8&si=WiaQSl6o9hz8vruQ

Everything should be warm in a jiffy, no problem. You reallyyyyy don’t have to meditate for 48 hours waiting for some goofy amp to warm up.

I leave my AGD Duets on stand by all of the time, so I haven't tried them from a "cold" start except when I first bought them. Then they definitely sounded better over time. Part of the burn-in process I guess, between the amps and the stock power cords.