Maintenance - Decware SE84C+ Owner's Manual

DECWARE OWNERS MANUAL – MODEL SE84C+
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 next 200 hours or so. After that, the output transformers and wire will season
with age. That means that an amplifier that is 5 years old will always sound 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 Zen amps have never heard the read 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 equipement swapping.

MAINTENANCE

Cleaning should be done with the amplifier OFF and at room temperature. Tubes should
be removed prior to cleaning. A damp towel with alcohol is ideal for removing any
smudge marks.
Input jacks can also be cleaned with an alcohol soaked Q-Tip inserted into the jack and
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