question about breaking in speakers and amp



HI all,

I set up my new (and first) system the other day. I must say it sounds really good out of the box -- so here is my question. I got three pieces -- a Jolida tube amp, a music hall cd player, and Quad 21L2 speakers. What should I expect to hear change as the equipment starts to break in? What should I be paying attention to?

Thanks!!

Marty
martyw
My Meadowlark Audio Osprey speakers took over 200 hours to break in. The time depends on the equipment. Not everything is broke in within 24 hours.
LOL! Everything breaks in immediately and then runs at full capacity until one day it just dies without warning! Go figure! I guess it's one of those mysteries of electronics that no one understands. I certainly can't tell the difference between between new and broken in power cords - that proves it to me. But, then they don't die do they?

If you can't hear stuff breaking in, or dying for that matter, the reasons are not mysterious to me. :-)
Tvad re the Silverlines, mine were completely functional when I first set them up, no 37 hours, or, sorry, 36 hours, needed. But one thing I noticed was that the bass sucked(!) even though one reviewer had waxed poetically about its bass. I bought a sub (took a week to get it and plug it in) and got it all set up leaving the Silverlines running full range. Then one day I forgot to turn the sub on but didn't even notice it's absence until the end of the day when I tried to turn it off. Go figure, couldn't have had anything to do with woofer break in though. I put the sub in the attic. Just any other mystery I guess. :-)
My woofers took 36 hours and 42 minutes to break in.

However, what really caused the bass to sound its best was a Pass Labs
amplifier. Had I owned the Pass Labs amp at the beginning of my Sonata III
ownership, the speakers might have displayed zero break-in, and sounded
perfect from the get-go. Who knows?