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In the past explanations I recall, the on-off thing seems a lot about caps "seating" ....the five hours on, five hours off protocol about full heat up and full cool down, not just caps, but everything being "flexed" from heating and cooling, while responding to musical signals. I am pretty sure you can benefit from this general guideline for many, many cycles..... And luckily, Jupiter caps are above average in burnin friendliness, sounding pretty good right off, making burnin funner, but still getting more and more refined for a long time.
To me, these amps take hundreds of hours to fully "burn in." 100 hours is a good start, but you will likely hear things moving around in sound quality for 300+, then more subtly up to ±600, finally reaching relative stability somewhere in there. Then "seasoning" continues subtle refinements.
I also try to play a variety of different music I like to hear, especially sure to mix in some with a lot of transients (like the Sheffield drum tracks and Gotan Project), fast and stronger transients good seeming as part of the "flexing" and "conditioning" of all those wires and parts.
It has been a long time, but back in the day, though all burnin CDs were not created equal, there was no question to me (then) that the Esoteric/TDK CD (along with music) sped up the process....And later, using a Frybaby2 to burn in parts for modifications before putting them in the gear really did help me get close to good sound, music usually close to finishing it up within days or a week for the most part. The Frybaby seems to be similar to a burnin CD, the idea being to run various frequencies, waves, intensities, speeds that are supposed to do what music does, but more quickly...but there do seem to be more effective and less effective patterns.
Similar to Groovy suggesting caution with this, I have heard folks who advise against burnin tracks, I believe Mapleshade (?) even saying it will hurt, but have not heard a clear explanation of why, except that music is what we use our system for, so burnin with it....At the same time, having had a number of amps and other things to burn in over years, in the past I felt the Esoteric along with music helped. And in my recent experience, the Frybaby2 is a real lifesaver, no doubt in my mind getting me much closer to hearing the real effect of a part, wire, or cable change without weeks or months of playing.
Hopefully someone who has concerns about using burnin tracks can offer some good explanations as to the why's?
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