Speaker Burn In...

I have found that speakers do not so much require 'burn in' as 'break in'.

I believe it's a matter of the actual mechanism requiring a bit of 'loosening up' for the speakers to sound optimal.

There is no doubt in my mind whatsoever that this holds true; I once purchase a pair of NHT 1.3's, but they didn't have them in stock. I borrowed the demos until mine came in on order. When I got my NIB speakers home, they did not sound anywhere NEAR as good as the demo pair i had been using. They sounded flat, uninvolving, totally lacking in bass, undynamic...

Day and night, i tell ya. I simply played my new speakers at moderate volumes as often as i could to get them to loosen up. I am in total disagreement with anyone stating that speaker break-in is pyschosomatic.

Just play music - and lots of it! your speakers will break in eventually and you can enjoy/observe the changes in the process along the way.

No, i din't mean burn in, although that is a factor too, no doubt.

I meant break-in. As in loosening up of the drivers, I guess you could say.

Is everything ok now?

Magfan, i know you're kidding ~! My comment was not directed at you, as either expression works for me too. But the point I was trying to make is that there is a difference between burn-in of electronic components as current passes through them as opposed to break-in with respect to the movement of mechanical devices. My bicycle parts (moving; mechanical) 'break in', they do not 'burn in'. By that logic, it's easy to see that they are distinctly different things.

Condescension should be checked at the door, as should rudeness and sarcasm. That's not what this place is all about,now, is it?