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In the Forum: Melquiades Amplifier
In the Thread: About the pre-warming of playback

Post Subject: The non-working effect. Interesting….Posted by Romy the Cat on: 8/25/2011

Two days ago a local audio guy was visiting me and he was listing most of the day. When I asked him to comment on the playback problems he made insisted that sound has some brightness/harshness “around top E”. That was interesting as I know that it shall not be any problems in the noted region. However, standing behind his listing chair I did concur what he noted.

Now it was kind of fun. Although I admit to myself that he was not wrong but I know that this brightness/harshness was not in my Sound. I knew also that I did not make any change with my playback for a long time. I knew also that even if electricity slide somewhere then it would be other symptoms and I did not recognize those other symptoms in the sound I heard. The sound was fine all together but that very fine “alien” presents was in a way mystifying as I had no idea what it was coming from…

As the time went buy I noted that the brightness/harshness was residing it and in 3 hours it went away completely. The sound returned back to it’s normal state of being soft and spongy. Then it came to me. I recognized that before the visiting of my guy I did not play Macondo/Milq for 2 days - a quite long period in my room. So, apparently Melquiades need some time to bring itself back to the full duty. It is was not the I did not know it but I was under impression that 2 days might be recovered by one hour of hot playing… It turned out that it was not enough.

It would be interesting to learn what kind specific elements of the Melquiades are more vulnerable to that “non-working effect”. Usually we blame capacitors but who the hell know what it is in reality….

Rgs, Romy the Cat

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