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In Reply to: Re: Your reasoning and experiment are faulty posted by hifi heretic on April 14, 2007 at 16:58:43:
The customer can't be expected to complete building a cabinet or apply fine finishes, but break-in is accomplished automatically by the customer, for free. The cost of break-in at the factory would be significant for reasons I already gave: inventory and the considerable expense of additional equipment. Does your company allow inventory to sit for days or weeks before they want to sell it? If so, I could save them a lot of money.You never considered my analogy (admittedly, not entirely accurate) to an automobile engine. What car maker runs their engines for 50 hours before they put it into a new car?
There are some cable companies that advertise pre-run on a cable cooker, but that's more of a gimmick that probably doesn't add value or accomplish what they claim. No speaker manufacturer is going to play their equipment for a hundred or more hours before shipping it. It might not even be legal to sell such equipment as new.
But that doesn't mean break-in doesn't exist. Every quality speaker manufacturer admits and every speaker assembler knows that drivers must be used a little before they yield their ultimate performance. They can't all be nuts or liars. That's why all good speaker manufacturers inform their customers about break-in. I think you're being a little too suspicious of every company.
Maybe you should ask a high-end retailer if they ever offer a demo of a pair of speakers just received from the factory. I would guess they don't because they understand the importance of breaking them in. This might also explain why so many customers complain that new speakers don't sound as good at home as the ones they heard in the showroom. No doubt there are myriad factors to consider here, but an important fact is that a speaker right out of the box simply cannot sound as good as one that's been played for a while.
Your experiment proved nothing because you were determined to not hear a difference. Using a monaural switch to compare speakers may very well defeat a lot of the nuance that break-in produces. Eight hours might not be nearly enough to effect a change. How loud was the single speaker played over night? There are just too many variables and too little control for you to make such a claim from one brief experiment. For an experiment to be valid, you would need to sample a larger population and apply better control for a longer period of time on pairs of speakers, not just one.
That's not marketing; it's scientific method.
Peace,
Tom E
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