Hi Wayne, great going! Its been my experience that even digital audio gear needs to warm up in order to achieve its best performance. I have a DAC that sounds kind of flat and uninvolving when first turned on, after about 10 minutes it sounds MUCH better but doesn't get to full glory until its been running for at least 6-8 hours. I did a study and it turns out its strongly correlated with the temperature of the DAC chip, when its warm it sounds better. Modern DAC chips use very little power so they can take a long time to really warm up. The "old fashioned" power hogs got hot quickly.
A number of people like to put damping material or little sand bags over the crystal on their DACs, supposedly for vibration damping. I found they primarily work by thermally insullating the parts, they get hot faster and ultimately reach a higher temperature. Of course at some point the parts stop working when they get TOO hot. A delicate balance! John S. -- JohnSwenson ------------------------------------------------------------------------ JohnSwenson's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=5974 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=24800 _______________________________________________ audiophiles mailing list audiophiles@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/audiophiles
