Speaker Break-in


What is the best way to break-in speakers?

I was thinking of using my tuner. Can this be done at a low volume or do the speaker cones need to be "moving"?
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Go spend $35 for the Isotek System Enhancer CD. It's worth the money. You will use it far more than you expect.

The IsoTek vision has always been to create high quality products that improve the performance of a complete audio or home theatre system. This has certainly been true of award-winning range of power management systems. The IsoTek Full System Enhancer furthers commitment. The Full System Enhancer will not only burn-in and demagnetize, but it also rejuvenates your audio system, allowing it to function at its optimum level.

It is important to exercise the system across the full range of frequencies and amplitudes it may encounter in real life, and to this end the tones on this disc have been devised to cover the audio band from top to bottom, also ensuring that, for instance, high amplitude signals are combined with high speed ones. There is good reason for the various signals and tones on this disc bearing no relation, perceived or calculated, to music. At first sight, the problem of burning in a music system may seem to call for some kind of signal that resembles music in certain specifics but somehow ‘works faster’ in exercising and/or settling down the various components within the system. But while such a signal can be generated, it doesn’t burn equipment in very fast and doesn’t address the rejuvenation function either.

The Full System Enhancer features three tracks. 0.1
(30 minutes) and 0.2 (30 minutes) are similar, with the second being optimized for systems with large loudspeakers and/or subwoofer(s). In general, use 0.1 for most stand-mounted speakers, 0.2 for floor-standing models, except perhaps the slimmest.

The differences are neither profound nor dangerous, but the benefits of 0.2, in the right situations, we have found to be audible. The last few minutes of each track are intended specifically for system demagnetizing and we DO advise that playback of each track should be performed in full.

Track 0.3 (5 minutes) has been specifically developed as a quick ‘spruce-up’ for the hi-fi, consisting of a little of the ‘hi-fi aerobics’ from the start or Tracks 0.1 and 0.2 followed by a slightly less comprehensive demagnetiation regime which, however, should be quite adequate to redress any ill effects accruing over a day or two’s use or disuse.