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<blockquote data-quote="JimJ" data-source="post: 672145" data-attributes="member: 555251">Few things in here that could use clarification...Chevy &amp;gt; Ford - don&#039;t make me come over there.&quot;Break-in&quot; is a big topic talked about in all realms of audio, with countless different devices supposedly &quot;needing&quot; a break-in period. Subs, speakers, tubes, interconnects, speaker wiring, power cords...do all of these actually need break-in? No, of course not.Wiring, whether you want to believe it or not, doesn&#039;t &quot;break-in&quot;...it can&#039;t. There&#039;s no moving parts in a wire, so there&#039;s nothing to mechanically change, unless you count the connectors in some weird way. I chuckle when I hear people talk about how their speaker wiring became more mellow over time or how their power cables loosened up on the low end, because it simply isn&#039;t &quot;technically&quot; true. What they heard, of course, is anybody&#039;s game, and why high-end audio places are in business //content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/smile.gif.1ebc41e1811405b213edfc4622c41e27.gifNow, for mechanically active devices such as subwoofers or vacuum tubes, I can believe the premise of &quot;break-in&quot; a little better...after all, these are products that change mechanically over the course of their lifetime, so the concept of breaking them in is more plausible.That all said, I thrashed my &#039;12a when I got it installed, and it&#039;s still running fine a year later.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="JimJ, post: 672145, member: 555251"] Few things in here that could use clarification... Chevy > Ford - don't make me come over there. "Break-in" is a big topic talked about in all realms of audio, with countless different devices supposedly "needing" a break-in period. Subs, speakers, tubes, interconnects, speaker wiring, power cords...do all of these actually need break-in? No, of course not. Wiring, whether you want to believe it or not, doesn't "break-in"...it can't. There's no moving parts in a wire, so there's nothing to mechanically change, unless you count the connectors in some weird way. I chuckle when I hear people talk about how their speaker wiring became more mellow over time or how their power cables loosened up on the low end, because it simply isn't "technically" true. What they heard, of course, is anybody's game, and why high-end audio places are in business [IMG]//content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/smile.gif.1ebc41e1811405b213edfc4622c41e27.gif[/IMG] Now, for mechanically active devices such as subwoofers or vacuum tubes, I can believe the premise of "break-in" a little better...after all, these are products that change mechanically over the course of their lifetime, so the concept of breaking them in is more plausible. That all said, I thrashed my '12a when I got it installed, and it's still running fine a year later. [/QUOTE]

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