Questions about the Blackstar HT-5

[d1dsj]

Cool.... hope it all works out for you, still don't think you can go wrong for that sort of cash! :)

[Dmoney]

Make sure you warm it up a bit longer than your other amps when you put it on standby.
I'm not sure how true it is, but the guys in Sounds Great said that they take a bit more warming up. Something to do with having push-pull AB something or other using just one valve. (means nothing to me)

Hope you like it

sounds odd to me... i would have thought all tubes of the same type are going to warm to the same point, over a varying amount a time. and the heater in the tubes should be desighned to apply a certain amount of current to the heating element and from that you can work out the time taken for the element to heat the tube at the average room temperature.

i wouldnt have thought class a or class a/b operation would relate in any way to how long it takes your tubes to heat up. maybe it does.

[SG Thrasher]

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[Dreichlift]

Make sure you warm it up a bit longer than your other amps when you put it on standby.
I'm not sure how true it is, but the guys in Sounds Great said that they take a bit more warming up. Something to do with having push-pull AB something or other using just one valve. (means nothing to me)

Hope you like it

sounds odd to me... i would have thought all tubes of the same type are going to warm to the same point, over a varying amount a time. and the heater in the tubes should be desighned to apply a certain amount of current to the heating element and from that you can work out the time taken for the element to heat the tube at the average room temperature.

i wouldnt have thought class a or class a/b operation would relate in any way to how long it takes your tubes to heat up. maybe it does.

There's some sort of built in protection that stops the amp operating if you turn it on too quickly, it only takes a minute or two though and just makes sure the amp is at full operating efficiency before you start trying to melt the paint of your bedroom wall  :D

I admit when I first got it I turned it on and thought I'd got a dud for a few seconds.

[Dmoney]

ah right! thats kind of clever. still has nothing to do with the class of operation.

[Matt77]

I know nothing about class  :D