Pro 'Burn in' time.

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Do I need to have the loudspeakers connected to do a burn in?

Situation is that I expect my Pro this week, my plan is to have them on the kitchen table connected with a CD player on repeat for a couple of days before have it all back into the rack and connected with all 'cable management' done properly. Next is that I normally stream using Air and I need to bring my laptop to the work, so can not stream 24 / 7.

Without connecting loudspeakers (or some heavy duty resistor ) no current will flow in/through the ouput section. You'll only run in parts of the amp this way like the PSU, DAC, input sections.

As Antoine says.

Here is a link to discussion on test loads and a diagram. Measurements show both reactive (speaker simulation) and resistive results. http://www.thegearpage.net/board/index.p...d.1072793/
Tube amps are mentioned here, but this would work just as well with solid state. The "line out" part is not needed for power amp loading.