Breaking in Subs?

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I just bought a pair of eclipse 88120 SVC subs. I have heard that breaking in subs is the best thing to do. If so, how do I break these in?

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[zane 10+ year member]

You have purchased an incredible set of subs, and should be quite happy with them!

Break in is necessary to loosen the speakers suspension up a little. It works basically the same as stretching before a workout does.

There are several different methods of break in that you can use. One that works fairly well is to play a few tracks of Bass sweeps that occur across a wide frequency range ; repeatedly for about 30 minutes or more at low volume. Every 10 minutes, increase the volume marginally. I find that Bass Mechanik and Bass 305 have several acceptable tracks for this. Another method commonly used is playing pink noise through your speakers for an extended period of time- also at varrying volumes. This can be found on any IASCA competition test disc.

After doing this, and giving the subs a few solid hours of playing- hit them with the THX Bass Test- see how far they can really go! //content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/biggrin.gif.d71a5d36fcbab170f2364c9f2e3946cb.gif

take it easy,

-zane

 

[budgetSQ 10+ year member]

i dont know about u, but i've heard a lot of different shit about breaking in subs. What you just said is more common, but i've read in magazines (i think audio & entertainment) that breaking them in actually does nothing. They measured a sub that they broke in and initially it had a further excursion, but after like 6 hours it went back to its normal size. Their conclusion was that this basically does nothing, but it doesn't hurt the sub at all, and why not?

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[B&R Innovations]

yea thoes are excellent subs

you will be pleased

anyways, do as zane said, i do the same thing

its not so much for the cone (though strechign the surrond is very neccisary)

it smooths out the coils, and give a sub lower power, and letting it warm up

its the best way to go, i dont take chances, and i wouldnt with eclipses

 

[MxRacerCam 10+ year member]

Originally posted by budgetSQ i dont know about u, but i've heard a lot of different shit about breaking in subs. What you just said is more common, but i've read in magazines (i think audio & entertainment) that breaking them in actually does nothing. They measured a sub that they broke in and initially it had a further excursion, but after like 6 hours it went back to its normal size. Their conclusion was that this basically does nothing, but it doesn't hurt the sub at all, and why not?

 

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yeah i read the same thing. basically that there is always a regression towards the mean... i've never broken in subs before (nor have a lot of people i know) with absolutely no ill effects (SQ-wise or durability-wise). but... i doesn't hurt them to do it... so do what you are most comfortable with. i do have a question though (zane?)... if stretching helps (which it may) wouldn't you have to do it every time? like an athelete does? it's not like someone decides to be a runner, does some stretching, and then they're set for life... maybe if you warmed your subs up slowly every time you used them? i dunno.... just thinking outloud //content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/confused.gif.e820e0216602db4765798ac39d28caa9.gif