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Worry about how you're going to pay for these things.
There is really nothing in a loudspeaker that needs breaking in other than the woofer surrounds and spider. The research I've seen indicates that complete flexing of those elements will take perhaps a minute of serious playback. And that's an upper limit. Don't worry about break in. Worry about how you're going to pay for these things.
as good as my ht2-tl's sounded right out of the box after 4 months they really sounded good. mind you it could have been my cables and interconnects that i got a few months before
So what do you think this all means then?http://www.gr-research.com/myths.htmhttp://www.gr-research.com/burnin.htm
If you look at the data table in the first link, you'll see that in most all cases, virtually all of the changes in parameters occurred in the first 5 minutes of burn-in, with some additional changes in the first hour, and very small changes between 1 hour and 80 hours. Even comparing "fresh out of the box" measurements to those after 80 hours, most of the changes in the three measured parameters were on the order of 2-6%. That is not a significant change and is no more than, and generally lower than the tolerances on the capacitors likely used in a crossover.Paul
I certainly felt the listener effects of room treatmentstook me about a weekat first I thought - where are the dynamics?then I realized I was previously hearing too much reverberated energy in the roomgiven time to adjusta slight increase in the volume knoband the clarity, imaging, and dynamics that were enhancedfinally became fully resolved to the ear