question about breaking in speakers and amp

My Silverline Sonata III took 37 hours.

Well, 36 hours and 42 minutes..

:)

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?

Was never one to buy into the "break in period" needed for gear, until I had a chance to hear new mono tube amps, which should have blown my integrated away. It was not even close, returned back to the dealer whom kept them on a few days later... what a big difference. It taught me not to rush to judgement.