Good advice all around. Start slow and work your way up. On the other hand, just letting them purr along all day because your wife doesn't want to listen to them all day is a waste of electricity.
During break-in you are trying to loosen up the surround and the spider (inside) and you really don't do that with the 0.5mm excursions on the woofer at back-ground music levels. Better to push them harder for a couple of hours a day. Start slow, work your way up. Complete break-in may take hundreds of hours, but in most cases you'll find things sound pretty good after about 20 hours or so. They will improve with time but the improvements seem to get more incremental.
Perhaps the Tyler's are different, but I've broken in a couple of other SEAS driver speakers (Tyler uses SEAS woofers and tweeters) and you get pretty close after about a week or so of listening to them pretty hard for 2-3 hours a day.
During break-in you are trying to loosen up the surround and the spider (inside) and you really don't do that with the 0.5mm excursions on the woofer at back-ground music levels. Better to push them harder for a couple of hours a day. Start slow, work your way up. Complete break-in may take hundreds of hours, but in most cases you'll find things sound pretty good after about 20 hours or so. They will improve with time but the improvements seem to get more incremental.
Perhaps the Tyler's are different, but I've broken in a couple of other SEAS driver speakers (Tyler uses SEAS woofers and tweeters) and you get pretty close after about a week or so of listening to them pretty hard for 2-3 hours a day.