Revel salon 2 break-in period?


I recently purchased a pr of salon 2’s which had approximately 100 hours of non continuous use.
Salon owners who purchased their speakers new what did it take in hours to fully break them in ?
Also what changes did you hear when they reached the point of being fully broke in ?
hiendmmoe


Hookay....if you believe you know better than a renowned expert in speakers/acoustics/listener perception, and whose careful scientific work formed the basis for the very speaker you own...so be it.  (The very reason you like your speakers so much essentially IS because someone like Olive really knew what he was talking about).

Once one encounters the "I heard it, so it’s true" response, the road seems to end there.


Just tryin’ to possibly save you some audiophile angst. ;-)



It depends on the design and manufacture of the speaker. A good design and well built won’t need break in. It should break in within a minute or two perhaps an hour at most.

The air suspension and voice coil motor should dominate the woofer response and not the spider or rubber surround compliance.

Tweeter motor should dominate the tweeter.

If the response drifts over hundreds of hours then the speaker response is dominated by minor factors like spider and surround compliance. It suggests a weak drive motor and a lack of air suspension relative to everything else. It suggests that the speaker will not be very linear in response. Open baffle speaker woofers are the most likely to need break in.
just play them non stop for 4 days at moderate volume. youll then know for sure how they are supposed to sound
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Hiendmoe:

Boy, have you received some ugly responses

I have the Ultima Studio2 & were broken in when received 
I would suspect 100 hrs would be required
I have found amps make a large difference in bass on these Revels
Mac’s  hi end is sweet but bass is soft
Bryston pounds the bass, like adding extra woofer, but high end is strident ( to me)
ML sounds good overall, but never got me excited & I never thought Revel was that good, or make me want to buy
Pass Labs really made me jump up and really listen, great bass, nice details on high end

Summary, I’m liking the Studios as the tweeter is really delicate & revealing 
Break-in is part of deal , but a couple hundred hours may not be needed( more of you breaking  in to the new sound)

100 hrs would be my guess

What amp you running ? & what sound do you think you are missing?    Bass? Etc

They are really nice speakers 

jeff