Breaking In Speakers

[Phyl]

I built a couple of cabinets and loaded them with Eminence speakers. I've read that the speakers don't sound their best until they've been broken in with several hours of playing.

I was thinking of connecting the cabs to a home stereo and letting it run for 6-8 hours at moderate volume, not real loud, but loud enough to get the paper moving pretty good.

Anyone ever done something similar?

 

[Jason43]

Did that with my home theatre speakers. Let it play while I was at work for a couple days at moderate volume.

 

[boingoman]

Depending on who you talk to speaker breakin happens in about 30 seconds or takes a hundred hours or so.

 

[dementedchord]

Depending on who you talk to speaker breakin happens in about 30 seconds or takes a hundred hours or so.

or as i believe it's total bullshit... there's nothing to break in... the only physical contacts are the surround and the spider...your going to break in an air gap??? or a freefloating coil of wire???

 

[Harvey Gerst]

This topic was discussed already:

http://www.homerecording.com/bbs/showthread.php?t=154115