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In Reply to: RE: Yes Your Response Is No Surprise! posted by thetubeguy1954 on June 04, 2007 at 12:52:13
> When first assembled the mechanical properties of speakers such as their cone and spider material,
> suspension material, cone material, voice coil, magnetic material flux density. ribbon weight, area,
> tension, panel dimensions, magnet distance, stator distance, electrostatic voltage differential etc., require
> a certain amount of time (typically 50-100hrs) to break or settle in to an optimal point.
That is quite a laundry list but I've never seen anything but anecdotal evidence that states it takes "50-100hrs" for this to happen. (And how convenient that they all get better on the same time schedule!) If I am paying thousands, and perhaps tens of thousands of dollars for a pair of speakers, why hasn't the manufacturer already done this? Shouldn't it be part of the quality control effort to make sure I get a proper product?
> The speakers (like your car engine and all other mechanical components) will continue to
> break-in naturally throughout its lifespan...
Nice thought, but implicit in your statement is that things stay put at some magical (or "optimal" to use your phrase) point or improve. That is certainly not the case with cars, to use that example. My car currently has 30,000 miles on it. It was better when it had 20,000 on it and better still when it was at 10,000. Does it still work pretty good? Sure, but I don't have this pretense that the car has now stabilized at some optimal perfection or even continues to get better as I pile the miles on. Cars are far more an example of my point than yours. The fact that no part currently needs to be replaced doesn't mean the car is at it's 100% optimal status.
> No one (besides YOU) said the components will never get worse.
I'd love for you to point out the great body of messages from the adherents of long break-ins who have treated break-in as anything other than an improving process.
> If you believe that we always have the "but audio is special" rule mls-stl so be it!
> But in this case you're the only claiming that's so...
Dream on. The "but audio is special" rule is invoked around here so often that it makes one's head spin. It may be phrased differently, but it is pulled out as the all-purpose answer nearly every time one of the beloved modern audio truisms bumps heads with science or engineering.
Keep in mind that I've already acknowledged that as a device with moving components, there is a break-in period. I've just not seen any credible evidence that it takes tens or hundreds of hours to accomplish.
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