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In Reply to: Burn in time posted by Danny on June 12, 2006 at 19:38:36:
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This is one of the great myths in audio. There are sometimes measueable changes that can occur in the driver suspensions; however, they tend to factor out and thus there's little if any response change. This happens fairly quickly if the input level is high enough, only a few minutes. Other than that there are no measureable changes. If something sounds different it's probably because you're becoming more familiar with the speaker's sound. You may hear things you haven't noticed before because your level of concentration has increased.
We golden ears know the longer the required break-in timing, the better the speaker. In fact I'm almost done designing a speaker whose exotic materials will take three decades to break-in!Some middle-aged owners will NEVER get to hear how great they sound when broken in, and they may sound mediocre for the first two decades, but hopefully break in will be complete before the owners hearing ability fades away with old age.
Or else the owner's children may be the first people to appreciate the incredible sound qualities of broken-in unobtanium drivers.
The only engineering glitch so far is I can't figure out why the speakers stop working just after "break-in" is complete.
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Richard BassNut Greene
My Stereo is MUCH BETTER than Your Stereo
One big exception off the top of my head: Gallo Reference 3/3.1Try listening to a new pair with maybe half a dozen tracks you are VERY familiar with. Likely result: they're going on A-gon/Ebay!
Now take those speakers, wire out of phase & put the woofers next to each other, wrap in as many heavy blankets as you own & play some huey helicopter touch & goes at close to live levels on repeat for about a week.
Try those same tracks again - now you might see what all the hype is about.
Since you haven't been listening to the Gallos during the break in week, it ISN'T your ears that have "gotten used to" the sound of the speakers.
The break-in for Ref 3s is excruciating ( I'll bet half the ones on Audiogon are not really broken in). I once pretty well astonished a guy with how great they sound in my system ... and he manages a store that sells the things!
I heard some of these at CES, well set up and I thought they were rather rough sounding. Kinda like they weren't broken in, but I'm sure they wouldn't take that kinda risk if they knew it made a difference.
I wonder how long the engineers at Gallo laughed when they heard people were doing this to their designs to get better sound?I wonder how a salesman would drop that one on a propsective mark?
The mind is marevelous thing.
Peace,
TommyK
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What I am hearing is that if I played your speakers loud for say half an hour, and didn't like em, why prolong the agony ?If what you are saying is correct, then a half hour burn in, followed by a night of playing different music should tell the tale ?
Of course, it does take some time to move em around the room ... but 30 days ?
What for, if it only takes half an hour to tell the tale ?
The sane reason any other company has for a trial period - to see if the speakers perform well on a variety of recorded material and match your listenong room / preferences.
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