In Reply to: Your reasoning and experiment are faulty posted by madisonears on April 14, 2007 at 16:02:40:
Yes, as a matter of fact, I do know something about manufacturing. Moreover, I know quite a bit about distribution and marketing. ..It happens to be what "I do."Sure, breaking a speaker in might add to the time it takes to turn out finished product. But the cost this represents to the company PALES in comparison to the cost of a product not selling at the Retailer; which is what the company risks if they ship speakers that sound "harsh and strident" only because they weren't run-in properly.
For goodness sake, consider all the speaker companies that tout the tremendous time and effort spent using "old-world tools" to build furniture grade cabinets, followed with hand-rubbed finishes and careful oiling, etc. etc.. ..You can't really believe that they couldn't find a way to "break-in" their speakers if they really felt this made the difference.
Why is it that not ONE speaker (or Amp, or CD player, or Cable) company has ever advertised: "Our product arrives to you completely broken-in!" ? The reason is simple: They know that this would be essentially telling the customer, "if you don't like it right out of the box, then you'll never like it." Of course, they could always claim that the Speaker (or whatever) needs to acclimatize to your PARTICULAR gear, and that, they'll argue, could take a few hundred hours :)
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Follow Ups
- Re: Your reasoning and experiment are faulty - hifi heretic 16:58:43 04/14/07 (2)
- There's no converting a heretic, but here goes... - madisonears 19:01:21 04/14/07 (0)
- Gallo was REASONABLY honest about break-in requirements of their Ref 3s. - Dave Pogue 17:18:47 04/14/07 (0)