All my experience shows that almost all digital audio devices sound better as they warm up. Its actually temperature not time they have been turned on.
I've put temperature probes on various chips and tracked the sound with temperature for various CDPs and DACs and they all sound better the hotter the chips get. For each piece of gear there is usually one chip that is the most sensitive to temperature, and its not always the same one. In one DVD player the sensitive chip generated very little heat so it took a long time to warm up, I could accelerate this process dramatically by putting a thermally conductive material between it and the chip next to it which generated much more heat. As a matter of fact I've found that a lot of the tweaking some people do adding "damping material" to their DVD players etc has a far bigger effect because of the thermal insullation increasing the operating temperature than from the vibration damping. Of course this can go too far, at some point things stop working when the temperature gets too high, you want to stay below that point! The SB3 is actually quite good in this regard, it generates a fair amount of heat and has a plastic package which helps keep the temperature up inside. John S. -- JohnSwenson ------------------------------------------------------------------------ JohnSwenson's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=5974 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=35531 _______________________________________________ audiophiles mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/audiophiles
