T O R I I J R O W N E R S M A N U A L
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To prevent ground loops the TORII JR employes a separated audio ground and earth
ground/chassis shield by using a 10ohm resistor across a .68uf 600V poly film cap for
noise and hum free operation even in adverse conditions. It’s a fairly effective ground
loop eliminator/ preventer.
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BREAK-IN aka BURN-IN
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When your amplifier is new, it will not sound as good as it does when it’s several
months old. The reason for this is the internal parts breaking in. The process typically
involves the amp sounding a little harsh, or a little muddy, or having premature
distortions when run at higher volumes. It can change from one symptom to another in
as little as 15 minutes time. This process usually stops with less than 100 hours of use.
Of course after the initial burn-in process, the amp will continue to season and refine
over several months. That said you can still expect the amp to sound good and be
more than usable right out of the box.
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SEASONING
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The older your amplifier gets the better it will sound. This helps to explain why used
Decware amps exceeding ten years of age often get their original purchase price on
the used market in the rare event that they get sold.
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SOUND QUALITY
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The fidelity of the amplifier, it’s frequency balance, pace, transparency, imaging and
sound stage are extraordinary due in part to the small number of parts to get in the way
of the music. That said, you will only ever hear it sound as good as the weakest link in
your system, which could be cables, a preamp, your source component. The only way
to hear how good the amplifier CAN sound would be to hook an analogue master tape
machine with a live two track master tape where the recording was done with top notch
microphones and engineering. Even the worlds most expensive DAC and
TRANSPORT will not sound as good, so obviously a 2500.00 DAC and transport is
going to be a step down, and a 500.00 CD player is going to be another rather large
step down. That means that you WILL handicap your amplifier, the question being
HOW MUCH. Moral of the story is that given the choice to replace this less than two
thousand dollar amp (wholesale price) with one 10 times as expensive will sound NO
WHERE NEAR as good as keeping this amp and spending 10 times as much on a new
source.
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Decware High Fidelity Engineering Co., East Peoria IL, USA www.decware.com
