MODEL - ZEN TORII MK V - OWNER’S MANUAL DATE 11/2021
BREAK-IN (cont.)
If you've been around the block a few times, the fastest way to break in the amp is
5 hours on with music and 5 hours off. Repeat this process 5 times. This process
will speed the seating of the dielectric in the coupling caps and you can then expect
the amp to bloom in the very near future.
Beyond this, the amplifier will continue to improve and become more and more
refined over the several hundred hours. After that, the output transformers and
wire will continue to season with age. That means that an amplifier that is 5 years
old often sounds better than an amplifier that is 1 year old. Yes, it just keeps
getting sweeter as time goes by.
WEAK LINKS
Please, if even only for an evening, lift some of the handicaps you've placed on your
new amplifier so you can hear more of it's inner magic. The fidelity of your
amplifier is limited by the weakest sounding link in your system. The quality of
your source component and interconnect cables is of paramount importance
because you now have an amplifier so good it will never become the weak link. You
can't spend enough money on a source to hear how good the amplifier actually is,
so each time you upgrade your source the amp will blow your mind all over again.
Make sure you pull your speakers well out into the room set up in a triangle with
the listening chair. In this arrangement you will be able to hear the music go
holographic with outrageous depth and width. Amuse yourself with how well your
speakers disappear.
Statistically most owners of Decware amps have never heard the real potential and
inner magic the amp is capable of. Because it sounds better than what they had,
they stop exploring. Room acoustics are what create the boundary between
potentials with this amplifier. Even with a 7 figure DAC as your source, you will not
get to the magic place I'm talking about in an un-treated room unless by sheer
luck.
It is possible to take a spare bedroom of smallish size and create a dedicated
listening space that literally sounds like it's 8 times larger than it really is. Imagine
perfectly rendered 3D space throughout as if your walls didn't exist. If more people
realized this is possible with diffusion and absorption I think you would see a lot
more treated listening spaces and a lot less equipment swapping.
Manufactured by High Fidelity Engineering Co.
