Axiom Home Page Forums General Discussion Advice from Axiom Owners Break in procedure

Thats a good point Worfzara. With a big company like Energy (know owned by Klipsch) I would be surprised if the owners manual was written by any of the engineers. I'm sure it's delegated to another department like marketing for example.

I agree about not putting any stock into damaging the speakers before the 100hrs mark if played to loud. Energy speakers are well engineered and use good drivers. Statements such as those are to prevent the owner from returning the speakers (or to keep them longer) during the return period in case they are not liking the sound.

Hi Worfzara,

The Energy note in the manual on break-in is hilarious. I'm sure that Ian Paisley, the former director of engineering for API (the parent company of Energy, Mirage, SPL, Sound Dynamics, etc), now retired, would be much amused, as would John Tchillinguarian, former Energy designer, Kevin Voecks--now at Revel--and Axiom's own Andrew Welker, who took over design at Mirage).

I suspect the note on break-in came from the API marketing dept, some of whom had very close contact with the tweakophile anti-science editors at The Absolute Sound and Stereophile, all of whom implicitly believed the break-in nonsense. It was to garner favor with the tweak magazines, which Energy and Mirage were able to do. If they hadn't indulged the break-in myth, they would have been dismissed by the tweak editors, who held lots of power with higher-end boutique dealers and customers.

Regards,
Alan

I didn't read the part regarding speaker break when I bought my RC's...whew... . I figured since engine break in was a myth it applied to speakers as well.

We have a totaly different kind of energy to spare, electrically we are very poor.