Burning in newly rebuilt crossover capacitors


For those who believe that burn in makes a difference ( if you don’t ,I do not need to hear that you think I’m fooling myself..Thanks), does the volume that you play music thru the speakers make a difference? Quiet, 24/7 for 200-300+ hr’s or loud, for as long as you can stand it, between quieter times.... ??
Thanks......
jim94025

Showing 1 response by timlub

Volume matters some, but not like breaking in a driver.  You are increasing voltage through the caps.  It is more important to just get a signal through them, but cranking does speed things up a bit.  I'm sorry that I can't give you anything more scientific or specific, but I have done this many times and can only say that when I cranked it up and left, things definitely settled in a bit quicker. Not only that,  I've had some caps settle down in what seemed to be 50 to 100 hours and many slowly changed over 400 hours or so.