tyrannyoforder
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Since reading the Audioquest report on the relationship between warm-up and jitter reduction, I'm curious how I can take advantage of this when using portable DACs.
Audioquest inform me that warm-up requires active audio throughput to be achieved. Is there a consensus on this?
Additionally, I'm informed that the benefits of warm-up, once achieved, can be retained merely by maintaining power to the DAC. At worst, it takes an hour of being deprived of power for the benefits to be lost.
This last being true, is there value in warming-up my portable DAC (currently a Fiio E17 Alpen, possibly later a Dragonfly) and then immediately plugging it into a live USB port on a mains power adapter (eg. a smartphone charger) to maintain the warm-up benefits (and obviously returning it there whenever it's not in use)?
My main playback devices are a laptop and a smartphone so keeping the DACs plugged in at all time would be impractical.
Audioquest inform me that warm-up requires active audio throughput to be achieved. Is there a consensus on this?
Additionally, I'm informed that the benefits of warm-up, once achieved, can be retained merely by maintaining power to the DAC. At worst, it takes an hour of being deprived of power for the benefits to be lost.
This last being true, is there value in warming-up my portable DAC (currently a Fiio E17 Alpen, possibly later a Dragonfly) and then immediately plugging it into a live USB port on a mains power adapter (eg. a smartphone charger) to maintain the warm-up benefits (and obviously returning it there whenever it's not in use)?
My main playback devices are a laptop and a smartphone so keeping the DACs plugged in at all time would be impractical.