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In Reply to: RE: Bill...two quick questions...off topic... posted by Mark Man on November 17, 2015 at 10:51:05
Hey, Mark--thanks for your interest.
DirectStream takes a good long burn-in. The number 500 hours is thrown around a lot. Whether that's due to the FPGA, the stout power-supply--couldn't tell you.
I couldn't vouch for that number myself; I just set up a continuous feed from a CD player and let in rip for a long while. It just gets better and better. I'm not anal-retentive to run a timer during the process. ;->
The single most amazing thing about DS is how good RedBook content sounds through it--it really is unfreakingbelievable. As one who owns thousands of CDs (and LPs)--that's significant to me. I do have hi-res files, but I'm damn sure not buying everything all over again.
The amps come up to speed relatively quickly--I'd say 20-50 hours to hit peak performance. That said, the tubes are burned in, and I've heard them be absolutely stunning, cold out of the box--at reviewer's homes, where they blew away megabuck amps. It's really satisfying to experience that.
Josh is good people: we're in touch pretty much daily. Holler if I can help.
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I thought TMR buys and sells only used, trade-in, and overstock equipment? I visited them about a year ago.
Nice folks in a small light industrial building in Broomfield (or was that Westminster?). I sold a pair of mono amps to them about a year ago for quick cash as I didn't want to hassle with Audiogon, packing, and shipping those beasts.
Bill. Do you know when the biggest jump in break in might be? I have all of 8 hrs on mine and I think it sounds freaking fantastic with cd content. I have yet to get my PC setup etc.
What I've heard from folks is that 80-100 hours is a major tipping point, and then there are incremental improvements for many hours beyond that--some say as far out as 1,000 hours.
Personally, I'm not patient enough to track that long....
Bill,
Will the P.S. Audio transport output dsd from an SACD?
regards,
Johnny
Nt
Does that cryptic response me that it will in the future?
Johnny
Nt
Ayon 07s. The reviews are uniformly enthusiastic and you get aa cd player(tubed)in addition. Mine rivals my Nottingham 294 with Ortofon Cadenza Black which is amazing.
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