On Mon, 11 Sep 2006 17:30:51 +0200, Arnold wrote:

Don Pearce wrote:
What in blue blazes are you on about? Amplifiers don't burn in - they
start as good as they get, then very, very slowly fail, and if you
really want to play something on it for ages, play anything and just
press the repeat button.

I am considering always leaving the amp on. That way it is always warm
to play straight away and none of that terrible thermal cycling - being
switched on and off. I will get a decent lightning protector for those
nasty lightning bolts!

Thermal cycling is simply not an issue. I have amps that are many,
many years old, and they have never failed through thermal cycling. Do
global warming a favour, and turn off everything you aren't using.

As for trouble from lightning bolts, if you join the end of the
lightning conductor on your house to ground instead of the Hi Fi, you
will have no trouble.


You can't do anything with speakers using tones - all you will assess
is the depth of standing wave modes in you room. And believe me, if
you don't live in a really good anechoic chamber, they will be huge.

I just want to hear how balanced the tweeters are.

Not the slightest chance of doing it that way. Why do you suspect they
may be unbalanced? Play something in mono, something with plenty of
top end to it, and position the speakers equidistant from you, with
the tweeters facing you. Does the sound appear to come from a point
midway between the speakers? Yes? They are balanced. If not, nudge the
balance control slightly to put the image in the middle, then leave it
there. You won't need to do this, though - they will be just fine.

d

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