Pro 'Burn in' time.

[JoeW]

My D220 is sounding fabulous except it's passing into rough bit dropping after hours of run time. All I have to do is power cycle the amp and all is well. Changing the track that was playing made no improvement. This has happened that last two times I ran it for several hours continuously. It didn't feel warm beyond normal and I didn't have the presence of mind to check its temperature via the readout. I'm going to run it today to see if I can duplicate this. I'm running via a Mac Mini through Audirvana and USB.

Does your Mac sit close to the D?

http://devialetchat.com/showthread.php?tid=3673

No, the Mac Mini is pretty far away. But I read your post link and I suppose something like that could be happening. However, I swapped out the USB drive and so far after several hours of constant playing, the problem did not reoccur. I'm going to keep burning it in and since this considered off-topic, if the problem reoccurs, I will post to the support thread. Thank for the help to all. More on topic, the sound coming out of that silver pizza box is stunning. Whether it continues to improve with additional hours of burn in I'm not sure.