Breaking In New Subwoofers

[Ceebes 10+ year member]

Like I said in another thread, I'm gettin 2 kicker CompVRs. Yes yes, I know all yall think kicker ****. keep it to yourselves. What I'm askin in what is the best way to break in a new driver? Helpful comments welcome. Haterz jus leave.//content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/biggrin.gif.d71a5d36fcbab170f2364c9f2e3946cb.gif

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[Abel 10+ year member]

Like I said in another thread, I'm gettin 2 kicker CompVRs. Yes yes, I know all yall think kicker ****. keep it to yourselves. What I'm askin in what is the best way to break in a new driver? Helpful comments welcome. Haterz jus leave.//content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/biggrin.gif.d71a5d36fcbab170f2364c9f2e3946cb.gif

I have always heard low volume for first 24 hours, but i go all out right away!

BTW nothing wrong with kicker most people here dont like anything they cant afford making min. wage. or they hate because its a main stream brand. Good luck to you.

 

[power-fanatic07 5,000+ posts]

hook them up to a wall socket in 1 second intervals

 

[Korn4Life 5,000+ posts]

Kicker dont **** btw. Just take an easy for the first few days. If you have a Home stereo you can hook it up to that and play music through it overnight. Sometimes it can take months for a sub to fully break in, I doubt the cvr's will take that long though

 

[Abel 10+ year member]

hook them up to a wall socket in 1 second intervals

you are very helpfull! Its idiots like you that give this forum a bad rep.

 

[DbzArson 10+ year member]

i'd say do no low tones, either. but usually, the first day or so, just play it quiet, atleast untill everything softens up. But i doubt these subs will need that much breaking in.

 

[audioholic 5,000+ posts]

All the break-in period is is a period of time it takes the new suspension soft parts to work into their normal compliance. What this means is when the sub is new and not fully broken in, the suspension will be unusually stiff, and cone excursion will be lessened. As time goes on and the soft parts wear into their nominal compliance, cone excursion will increase. So no, no period of 'taking it easy' on your speaker(s) is necessary. The cooling effect lessened by loss of cone excursion will be minimal at best. Just play the subs normally. Once the sub(s) breaks in fully, you *may* want to readjust your gains, if you regularly play your sub to very near maximum excursion.

Subs needing to be babied until the break in is a myth.

 

[S.B.C. 10+ year member]

Beat the hell outta em

Spiders just need to loosen up

 

[Ceebes 10+ year member]

Beat the hell outta em...

I've heard the if you beat hard for the first few weeks you could burn up the voice coil. Because you dont have the excursion that the broke in sub has. The coil will try to push it, but cant, so it would over heat... idk maybe I jus heard wrong. Made sense to me tho.

 

[audioholic 5,000+ posts]

I've heard the if you beat hard for the first few weeks you could burn up the voice coil. Because you dont have the excursion that the broke in sub has. The coil will try to push it, but cant, so it would over heat... idk maybe I jus heard wrong. Made sense to me tho.

Like I already said, the slightly tighter suspension pre-break in will not likely result in enough loss of excursion to reduce cooling to a dangerous level. The 'pushing' force or the resistance to it is not the issue, the issue would be a loss of air flow through the motor, as cone excursion actually pumps cooling air through it. But again, Ive yet to see or hear of a suspension whose compliance changes significantly enough to create a serious situation prior to the sub breaking in fully. If you are worried, just dont turn it up past 80-90% of maximum the first few days. But even that precaution unlikely necessary.

 

[Ceebes 10+ year member]

aight thanks for all the help yall.

 

[1rockford1 5,000+ posts]

Put it in the oven on 350 for 20-25 min. then let it sit for 20 min and your good to go.

 

[gtbike900 10+ year member]

i just usally beat the **** out my subs to they get louder

 

[Ceebes 10+ year member]

Put it in the oven on 350 for 20-25 min. then let it sit for 20 min and your good to go.

What the **** dude??? that worse than hookin it up to the wall socket.

 

[MBrock4u 10+ year member]

The level of brilliance is amazing around here. It takes all kinds of idiots to make the forum go round.