Do brand new amplifiers need to burn-in??
Ordered monitor bx2 and yamaha a-s500 (my first real system) Okey so far. Received my speakers a couple of days earlier then the yama amp. I cant stand waiting for it to arrive so I hooked up my grandmas amplifier from i think 1978 Jvc jr-100 2x35w. dropped the treble eq to half as it seemed to sound linear there and it sounded amazing, very glad even thoght it was not so powerful but still enought here I actually doubt the yamaha would sound better in term of sound quality. Today the yamaha was installed and it looks very nice, a serious big transformator and "golden" components with big capacitors, compered to the yamaha the vintage Jvc got very small weak componets full of dirt all around and it wasnt smell brand new I can tell, tho it had two shy Elna 3700uf capacitors. Heres the dilemma, the Jvc sounded better in many tracks? The old Jvc can make the vocalists really sing out with pondus in the low and the whole sound is soft and still with highs and details it sound also very saturated with more insight. and the wierd thing is that the mid tends to be more neutral and dynamic just as the monitor audio box says. Not only that the yamaha sounded a little sharper even at half terble eq, it do got a "little" more details, definition in lows and of course more power. A test in sweden point out that the yamaha a-s500 is similar to marantz pm7004 in sound. Im sitting quite near the speakers and they are new but still... Advises?
Ordered monitor bx2 and yamaha a-s500 (my first real system) Okey so far. Received my speakers a couple of days earlier then the yama amp. I cant stand waiting for it to arrive so I hooked up my grandmas amplifier from i think 1978 Jvc jr-100 2x35w. dropped the treble eq to half as it seemed to sound linear there and it sounded amazing, very glad even thoght it was not so powerful but still enought here I actually doubt the yamaha would sound better in term of sound quality. Today the yamaha was installed and it looks very nice, a serious big transformator and "golden" components with big capacitors, compered to the yamaha the vintage Jvc got very small weak componets full of dirt all around and it wasnt smell brand new I can tell, tho it had two shy Elna 3700uf capacitors. Heres the dilemma, the Jvc sounded better in many tracks? The old Jvc can make the vocalists really sing out with pondus in the low and the whole sound is soft and still with highs and details it sound also very saturated with more insight. and the wierd thing is that the mid tends to be more neutral and dynamic just as the monitor audio box says. Not only that the yamaha sounded a little sharper even at half terble eq, it do got a "little" more details, definition in lows and of course more power. A test in sweden point out that the yamaha a-s500 is similar to marantz pm7004 in sound. Im sitting quite near the speakers and they are new but still... Advises?