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RE: is speaker break-in real?

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In Reply to: RE: is speaker break-in real? posted by Presto on June 27, 2017 at 15:34:27

Speaker break-in is real, simply because material creep (modulus relaxation at constant strain, or increased strain for constant stress) is real. Organic materials are often quite prone to it; inorganic materials generally aren't. As a senior design engineer, that completely nails it.
Incidentally, the common perception is that speaker break-in uniformly improves performance. There are many instances where measurements and careful listening tests have proven the opposite.
But going back many posts to Paul Barton's claims as relayed by Kal, there is no question that the perceptual component of the matter is quite real too.
Best,
Mark

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