Warm Up?

bigaudiofanatic
bigaudiofanatic Posts: 4,415
edited November 2009 in Electronics
I was at a audio shop about a week ago one that actually sold nice equipment. After talking to a guy there for about 10 minutes he brought up something interesting. He told me that when I power on my receiver even though it is not a tube amp, that you should allow it and your speakers to warm up for 5 minutes before cranking them up. Now I had hear of letting speakers warm up in a cold car but never heard of warming up a amp and speakers on a HT setup. He said by doing this you allow your circuitry to warm up and that helps them from getting damaged. Has anyone ever heard of this?
HT setup
Panasonic 50" TH-50PZ80U
Denon DBP-1610
Monster HTS 1650
Carver A400X :cool:
MIT Exp 3 Speaker Wire
Kef 104/2
URC MX-780 Remote
Sonos Play 1

Living Room
63 inch Samsung PN63C800YF
Polk Surroundbar 3000
Samsung BD-C7900
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  • NJPOLKER
    NJPOLKER Posts: 3,474
    edited November 2009
    I think at this point I have heard of everything then I hear everything else :rolleyes:
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  • Face
    Face Posts: 14,340
    edited November 2009
    Some gear does sound better warmed up, but I don't know wtf your friend is talking about.

    You should go back there and kick him in the teeth.
    "He who fights with monsters should look to it that he himself does not become a monster. And when you gaze long into an abyss the abyss also gazes into you." Friedrich Nietzsche
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  • madmax
    madmax Posts: 12,434
    edited November 2009
    He is correct. When you first turn it on the temperature of many components jumps up past normal operating temp then back to normal. This only takes a few minute. So if you turn it on and crank it up at the same time there will be a few minutes where temperatures can be exceedingly high. Still, I'd kick the guy in the teeth as suggested previously. :)
    Vinyl, the final frontier...

    Avantgarde horns, 300b tubes, thats the kinda crap I want... :D
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  • bigaudiofanatic
    bigaudiofanatic Posts: 4,415
    edited November 2009
    Face wrote: »
    Some gear does sound better warmed up, but I don't know wtf your friend is talking about.

    You should go back there and kick him in the teeth.

    Well he is not a friend as I said he was a guy that works at a audio store. But I just wanted to let everyone have a good laugh at him if he was wrong. Or explain why it was right.
    HT setup
    Panasonic 50" TH-50PZ80U
    Denon DBP-1610
    Monster HTS 1650
    Carver A400X :cool:
    MIT Exp 3 Speaker Wire
    Kef 104/2
    URC MX-780 Remote
    Sonos Play 1

    Living Room
    63 inch Samsung PN63C800YF
    Polk Surroundbar 3000
    Samsung BD-C7900
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  • madmax
    madmax Posts: 12,434
    edited November 2009
    Kick him in the teeth anyway...
    Vinyl, the final frontier...

    Avantgarde horns, 300b tubes, thats the kinda crap I want... :D
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  • concealer404
    concealer404 Posts: 7,440
    edited November 2009
    Just kick him in the teeth, it'll be fun.

    That said... i leave my Oinker powered up 24/7 for this reason. It sounds like **** for the first 30 minutes if i just power it up and go.
    I don't read the newsssspaperssss because dey aaaallllllllll...... have ugly print.

    Living Room: B&K Reference 5 S2 / Parasound HCA-1000A / Emotiva XDA-2 / Pioneer BDP-51FD / Paradigm 11se MKiii

    Desk: Schiit Magni 2 Uber / Schiit Modi 2 Uber / ISK HD9999

    Office: Schiit Magni 2 Uber / Schiit Modi 2 Uber / Dynaco SCA-80Q / Paradigm Legend V.3

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  • danz1906
    danz1906 Posts: 5,144
    edited November 2009
    madmax wrote: »
    Kick him in the teeth anyway...

    I keep my Amps on all the time,and my Dac/transport in standby.
    Oh yeah....Kick the Guy in the Teeth:p
    Linn AV5140 fronts
    Linn AV5120 Center
    Linn AV5140 Rears
    M&K MX-70 Sub for Music
    Odyssey Mono-Blocs
    SVS Ultra-13 Gloss Black:D
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