Do speakers take time to warm up?

Most speakers I’ve owned have sounded better after playing for fifteen minutes to half an hour or so from stone cold, depending on volume. This applies with fully warmed up electronics

My 1st generation Acoustic Energy AE1s were particularly prone to this effect. They sounded dreadful cold and liked being given a real bit of ‘welly’ to wake them up. The fact that their diaphragms were designed as voice coil heatsinks may have had something to do with this, slowing their warming to operating temperature.

The original poster makes an observation about the phenomenon of speaker warmup, and your advice is to forget all this nonsense and buy a better system?

Why not just play music and accept that for the first half an hour or so it isn’t going to sound the best? A much more cost effective solution I think. What all this has to do with tube life is beyond me.

Please demonstrate for me the following
*That some speakers take longer to "warm up" while others do not, and that it is audible.

People hear it and adjust to it every day, as has been demonstrated by the numerous responses to this post. If YOU can’t hear it so be it. Just accept you can’t and leave it at that: people’s hearing acuity differs.

I’m not impressed with your attempt at putting them in their place.

It is possible that I put up more audio systems and conduct careful listening to them in one year in my home than you may have built in your lifetime. So, your mockery means little to me. If you are not going to discuss this in a mature way, I’m done talking with you.

ie I am right and know more because I have far more experience than you. Sorry, not a very convincing argument. You know absolutely nothing about me that makes you qualified to make such an arrogant and sweeping statement.

If you really think that a voice coil resistance change in excess of 10% can have no audible effect I suggest you go back to EE101.

https://www.audiophilenirvana.com/audiophile-tips/audiophile-warm-up-break-in/

And guess what! There was excellent scientific evidence presented for precisely the opposite case on the exact same page. And maybe I did notice just a teensy weensy bit of an agenda running through the forum, just perhaps of course........it was probably just me..........

And Douglas, please stick your slide rule (sorry Millennials) back in your pocket. We really don’t need another one of THOSE dead end threads.

My take is: there’s an awful lot of experienced listeners out there with really good hearing who regularly experience this phenomenon day in day out, and accept it as a fact of life.

What are its primary causes? I know you have your answers, but I would like to hear some others’ opinions.