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I've had my Khartago for four weeks now and suspect I haven't done enough to break it in.  Is leaving it on enough, or do you need to have a source on?  If the latter, does volume matter much?  Could one unplug the speakers and turn volume way up?  What's the standard process?

FYI, I had mine on just a couple hours each day for the first two weeks, and have left it on 24/7 since then, but have not played a ton of music on it each day - been too busy.

[Sonny]

Hi,
leaving it on with no signal coming through does not do much good, you should have something coming through it, be it the radio or a cd on repeat...in regards to being "loud" in volume, I don't think that matters as much, it is better to play it at a nominal level, but just having a signal going through a soft level is better than nothing...
T

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OK, I can manage that.  But can somebody tell me if running the amp with speakers unplugged will have any effect on break-in?

[bpape]

Well, without a load to drive, you'll not be doing much in the way of charging and discharging the elements. 

Bryan

[Wayne1]

OK, I can manage that.  But can somebody tell me if running the amp with speakers unplugged will have any effect on break-in?

It might break the amp 

The output stage needs to have a load across it.

That is usually speakers. Very LARGE and expensive load resistors can also be used.

Something like the Dale/Vishay 250 watt power resistors listed on this page from the Mouser catalog can be wired across the speaker outputs of the amp. They WILL get hot as current flows across the resistor.

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Looks like I'll leave my speakers plugged in then

Is there a certain point at which the volume is so low that you're just as well off not even playing anything?  For various reasons, I can't have music playing at any kind of medium to high volume nonstop 24/7.  Would I still benefit from playing it at a constant low low low low volume?