DECWARE ZEN TORII MK III MANUAL
OUTPUT TRANSFORMERS and IMPEDANCE
The TORII MK III comes stock with 4 and 8 ohm selections for your speakers via a switch
next to the speaker jacks on each side of the amplifier. It can also be factory configured
at the customers request to operate with 8 and 16 ohm speakers. There is also a 150
and 300 ohm tap available for custom applications.
It is important to understand that regardless of your speakers rated impedance, you
listen to it on both settings to determine which one sounds and performs best. This can
often mean running a 4 ohm speaker on the 8 ohm setting and visa versa.
BREAK-IN
During the first few hours or days with your amplifier you will no doubt wonder about
break-in, if for no other reason than hearing about it constantly every time you read
about new amplifiers.
If you're new to tube gear the amp will sound so good right out of the box that you will
have a hard time worrying about break-in, so don't.
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 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.
Manufactured by High Fidelity Engineering Co. WWW.DECWARE.COM
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