Von Schweikert

It's been years but I bet my Dynaudio speakers took 500 hours or close to it. You could hear bass you just knew it wasn't like it should be, you could hear the tightness in the woofers. If I hadn't heard a pair broke in at the store I probably would have returned them, I was tempted anyway. Finally I could hear them beginning to give.

I've had speaker break in before but I'll never forget that Dynaudio experience.

My JBL's didn't seem to have the same type tightness in the woofers it just took them a while to flatten out. What was interesting about them was the compression drivers, they changed in character a couple times before settling.
 
Mr Peabody said:
It's been years but I bet my Dynaudio speakers took 500 hours or close to it. You could hear bass you just knew it wasn't like it should be, you could hear the tightness in the woofers. If I hadn't heard a pair broke in at the store I probably would have returned them, I was tempted anyway. Finally I could hear them beginning to give.

I've had speaker break in before but I'll never forget that Dynaudio experience.

My JBL's didn't seem to have the same type tightness in the woofers it just took them a while to flatten out. What was interesting about them was the compression drivers, they changed in character a couple times before settling.
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I agree with you. Every single horn speaker I've had needs at least 400 hours and my Aqua La Scala DAC was 600+ hours. The Luxman gear I had - every piece - was exactly the same at 275 hours was the positive switch over.
 
they have been playing on and off now for 4 days. Yesterday afternoon I did a few adjustments and they are really settling in and sounding terrific. If you do like to rock these babies can rock like crazy. They have terrific bass and don't fall apart when you push them ( amps might) ,
The Mid and tweeter are settling nicely and they image really well.
I made a few small adjustments this am and I really like what I hear. I think that by the weeks end they will be close to 100 percent.
These are not hard to make sound good by the way
 
BendingWave said:
they have been playing on and off now for 4 days. Yesterday afternoon I did a few adjustments and they are really settling in and sounding terrific. If you do like to rock these babies can rock like crazy. They have terrific bass and don't fall apart when you push them ( amps might) ,
The Mid and tweeter are settling nicely and they image really well.
I made a few small adjustments this am and I really like what I hear. I think that by the weeks end they will be close to 100 percent.
These are not hard to make sound good by the way
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From what I understand they should fire forward with no toe in, right?
 
By the way even in the set up guide it talks about small bits of toe in.
I want to reinforce that this speaker does NOT IMO require serious toe in but a 1/4 inch or a 1/2 inch might make all the difference in certain rooms.
 
So lets talk about break in and break in that you can actually hear. Its been since Friday and the VR-30 have been playing most of the time since they arrived. Maybe not continuously since the internet here from time to times miss fires but I believe the speakers have over 100 hours. I think that this is the point of change, not exact science but today the few minor things I was waiting for happened.
THe midrange driver seems to take longer than the others to truly settle down but it did and the system now is alive and well, it all blends, it all melds together in a seamless manner and the result is more dynamics, much more integrated presentation and the little things that one doesn't like in a new speaker are gone. The piano sounds great, no overshoot or ringing the speakers have communed with the room and its working wonderfully. On Trio In Tokyo with Michel Petrucciani/Steve Gadd and Anthony Jackson "SO What" is great there is more space, more air and it sounds live. Like in Frankenstein "ITS ALLLLLLLLIVE"
Great Job Damon and team!
 
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