Revel salon 2 break-in period?


I recently purchased a pr of salon 2’s which had approximately 100 hours of non continuous use.
Salon owners who purchased their speakers new what did it take in hours to fully break them in ?
Also what changes did you hear when they reached the point of being fully broke in ?
hiendmmoe

Showing 1 response by shadorne

It depends on the design and manufacture of the speaker. A good design and well built won’t need break in. It should break in within a minute or two perhaps an hour at most.

The air suspension and voice coil motor should dominate the woofer response and not the spider or rubber surround compliance.

Tweeter motor should dominate the tweeter.

If the response drifts over hundreds of hours then the speaker response is dominated by minor factors like spider and surround compliance. It suggests a weak drive motor and a lack of air suspension relative to everything else. It suggests that the speaker will not be very linear in response. Open baffle speaker woofers are the most likely to need break in.