question about breaking in speakers and amp

The all differ..Don't be suprized if it sound worse before it gets better...Just play and enjoy..but don't be critcal for a month or so.........

With the speakers anyway, you should hear the bass and the sound stage get better and better as time goes by. What happens is the rubber surrounds on your drivers will loosen up. The tube amp in my experience will get smoother sounding after about 50 hours unless you had teflon V-caps installed then it could take hundreds of hours to smooth out.

in my experience, break-in is the biggest hoax in audio. your speakers and amps should sound perfect within 24 hours, or i would return them. (i will agree that tight, large woofers may need a bit of time--a few hours-- to loosen up, but that's it---and most people burn in speakers without playing bass heavy music which is part of the problem)

glad you enjoy your system right out the box! most people here can't do that because of their preconceptions

Hi Keith, I completely agree with you that equipment should sound perfect within 24 hrs. I did not mean to imply that a tube amp would sound bad when it is new its just that as the capacitors are forming, things should smooth out a little more after about 50 hrs or so depending on what material was used to manufacture the caps with, and teflon takes the longest to form. I had teflon caps installed in my tube amp and they sounded wonderful right from the start and to my ears are getting a little smoother as I put more hours on them.

The whole idea of break-in doesn't wash. A solid state system is broken in about 15 seconds after you turn it on the first time - speakers included. Tubes do need to warm up, but not in any different manner the first time you turn it on than the 200th time you turn it on. What gets broken in is the listener, not the equipment. This is not cement - it doesn't have to "set up".