Well the Campion and Sedley do improve a little after being switched on for some time yes, however I never like to recommend leaving any electrical equipment on when you are not attending it.
Both the Sedley and Campion, in my opinion, sound great from switch on so I would be happy with it that way.
I'll let you decide.
Does anyone else have any comment?
haider
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Based on Russ Andrews' advice (http://www.russandrews.com) in one of his downloadable booklets I left my Campion and cd-player on all the time. It sounded fine, but how can one judge an improvement when one is not allowed to compare (the system should be left on...).
So after a month I decided to turn the system out for a full 16 hours! Then I put it on, let it warm up for half an hour and started listening: fantastic sound (as always...). It may be that the month leaving the system on has improved the sound somewhat. But it is not the case that turning the sytem out decreases the sound compared to leaving it on all the time. So now I turn the system out late at night and put it on when I return from work. I'm accustomed to a half an hour warm up which makes the sound somewhat smoother and more relaxed.
All in all, leaving the system on or not in my view isn't that important. Perhaps you can leave it on for a month like I did and then forget about it.
What lately really improved my sound was dealing with two (OK: rather stupid) novice blunders:
(1) My (simple, unshielded) powercables were far too close to the (unshielded) speaker cables. After I had carefully separated them the sound became less restricted: more detail, smoother highs, even more bass; better music!
(2) Another mistake was that I had fastened my spikes to the speakers only by hand (no risk of breaking off...). Months later I found out that all spikes were loose, so the speakers were rocking all the time. I tightened them with a ring spanner and: deeper bass, better coherence from midth to low.
Total cost: 0,00 (any currency). Increase in listening pleasure: +++ (recommended).
Regards,
Jurjen
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I think the main difference you will have is between the amp being cold and warm. As the amp begins to operate in its optimum temperature, it stabilises at that ideal temperature and our setup is design to work best from there on ... and from there it really doesn't matter how long you leave it on, the amp stays at that temperature.
As you may have noticed there are no vents and no finned heatsinks in our amps, we use massive heatsinks to conduct the heat away in a very stable manner, so sudden temperature change in your room will not significantly change the amp's internal temperature. It is an expensive way to do it as if it was finned the heatsink can be much smaller and cheaper but it is less stable in my opinion.
Remo
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