Axiom Home Page Forums General Discussion Technical Questions speaker break-in music

I know there is a lot of debate about if speakers do sound better after proper break-in time. If you are a believer, or even if you arent but know all about it, what would you recommend as good break-in audio?

What types of music would you listen to or leave playing on repeat? I tried to google it and couldnt find anything! I probably could have done a better search. Is it something i can find easily?

Thanks in advance audio smarties!!

What ever kind ya like. I'm a non believer.

I broke my stuff in with some Stevie Ray Vaughan, it's been sounding perfect every since.

Actually I don't believe the speakers needs to be broken in myself ... I'm a non-believer also.

The important thing here is your ears. It sounds silly, but everyone needs a few hours with known pieces to adjust completely to both speakers and their interaction with the room. So don't think of it as breaking in your equipment, more as getting used to them. Once you feel OK, then you can start tweaking and adjusting.

If you subscribe to the idea of speaker break in, then I submit that the sound quality must be in a state of continuous decline as speaker break in suggests wear and as the speakers age the sound must therefore degrade at a continuous rate.

Still believe in speaker break in?

Listen and enjoy the new speakers

Eric nailed it, I'll come home from listening to music on another system or even in the car and it may take a couple of minutes to readjust to the Axioms. Doesn't take long though.

I would think that probably holds true with just about any system though.

I1, just to be safe, to insure the best future performance of your speakers you should play nothing but classical music through them for at least the first three months.

Play the "Exorcist" soundtrack backwards over your speakers.

It's too bad....everyone giving non-serious replies, pay them no mind.

It's a well known audio fact: Polka's...24/7 for three weeks!

Listen to JohnK. Don't listen to the polka guy.

Seriously, "speaker break-in" (if you believe it) is not like engine break-in where mating metal surfaces are fitting to each other with use. Speakers are essentially non-contact by design, so I don't think choice of music would make much difference.

Most people break their new Axioms in by listening to all of their CDs again