Buy an old stereo receiver and tune it to a rap station(a heavy bass genre). Place your speakers close together, hook them up out of phase(with each other) and facing one another, with a blanket over them. Much of the sound will cancel out that way and not drive you crazy.When I had my stores, that's the way we always broke in new speakers, except we used FM interstation noise, but same principle.
Quicken the burn in time for new speakers by using a cheaper SS amp?
I'm in the process of buying a new pair of speakers and I would like to burn them in quickly without using my main tube amp (I'm new to the tube amp scene, but it's my understanding that you should not run a tube amps for very long periods) and by running them for longer periods using a much cheaper SS amp. I'm thinking about using a cheap $125 Integrated Yamaha Amp http://www.amazon.com/Yamaha-R-S201BL-2-Channel-Stereo-Receiver/dp/B00F0H88SY/ref=sr_1_1?s=electroni.... The new speakers are going to run me about $3K. I'm willing to buy the cheaper amp just to burn in the new speakers. Any advice or comments would be appreciated.