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Bottlehead Kits => Mainline => Topic started by: dhherring on March 30, 2025, 01:13:52 AM

Title: OK the run Mainline without headphones?
Post by: dhherring on March 30, 2025, 01:13:52 AM

Got a couple of V-Cap Odams to go into my Mainline.

I've read here were these caps have a long break in period,  so I'm thinking of setting setting my computer to play constant music for a few days, but without any phones plugged into to the amp.

Any concerns with doing this?

Thanks

Don

Title: Re: OK the run Mainline without headphones?
Post by: Paul Joppa on March 30, 2025, 05:42:35 AM

It won't hurt anything.

But, while I hear capacitor break-in, I've never heard a rational mechanism to cause it. So it's possible that you need some signal current to flow through the capacitor to get the break-in effect. That would require some kind of load.

Title: Re: OK the run Mainline without headphones?
Post by: AllenS on March 31, 2025, 03:25:20 AM

As your headphones are new, you could just plug in an run low volume output... 2 burn in for 1.  :)