Loudspeaker break in time

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• OL

  @oliverbeard7912 · 1 day ago

  I love the comment "because the internet told me to".How true.😊

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• MA

  @markmeridian3360 · 1 day ago

  Paul says that everything benefits from break-in, cables, electronics, etc.  I bought a brand-new TV. When I turned it on the picture was just blurry shades of grey. After 10 hours I thought I might be starting to make out muted colors. After 25 hours I convinced myself that I could almost see shadowy football players but I wasn't really sure that it was a football game because the audio was unintelligible. I started to believe that break-in of electronics might be real and I just needed to watch it for a few hundred hours more. Then a thief burglarized my house and took the TV. That finally convinced me that break-in is definitely real.

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• PA

  @paulozavala3232 · 1 day ago (edited)

  I’ve never understood the thing or the stress over breaking in speakers etc. Not that mechanical devices wouldn’t need to brake in. But what about just listen to music and eventually they are ready? Those days of playing pink noice could have been done while enjoying some music instead!

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• RI

  @richardsmith2721 · 1 day ago

  We Built This City on repeat for a month 24l7.

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• DM

  @dmitriy2853 · 1 day ago (edited)

  I wish you patience and endurance, Mr. Paul! I read the comments.

• GL

  @glenncurry3041 · 1 day ago

  Would white or pink noise break a speaker in faster than intermittent random frequencies and excursions from actual music?

• AN

  @antoniojoseandreomartinez9710 · 1 day ago

  👍♥️♥️.

• CH

  @charleshadden2937 · 1 day ago

  I think my system which has many new components in the last couple of years and especially the last year. I often feel like something new is opening up and I think that even after that extended time it is still burning in.

• TS

  @TSR_2025 · 1 day ago

  Speaker cones are a little like a baseball glove. We get when we were kids and just took a while to break it to move freely.<br>Most every speaker I’ve bought new kind of sounds like crap till about five hours then little by little he gets better

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• BU

  @budgetaudiophilelife-long5461 · 1 day ago

  THANKS 🙏 PAUL FOR ANSWERING THE AGE OLD QUESTION🤗🧐💚💚💚

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• TV

  @TV12K · 1 day ago

  Break in is true, but is just a bonus. If you don&apos;t like the sound of the speakers from day 1, no break in will help you with that.

• HI

  @hifirulezzz · 1 day ago

  Qobuz has an album with audio tests including the burn-in song. It did help me with KEF. On day 3 sensitivity increased and dynamics improved significantly.