I will have alpine spx-177r and 10" type x sub.

i've heard that you can blow the speakers if you don't break them in...

SO...how do you properly break them in? i know how to break in my engine but not speakers.

Thanks

 

eh, just play them. not very loud. you can lean on it a little, just don't go full volume and have a block party with it.

 

make sure that when you turn the car off you dont have the music blasting. Then when you turn the car back on the music will still be blasting, that is a good way to blow a speaker.

 

thanks guys

how long does the break in period have to be? as you well know from my ?s, i am a newbie in audio.

 

a week is good.

 

Breaking in speakers is one of those 'myths' where no one really knows the truth. Sort of like breaking in an engine...

For every expert there's another one stating something else. I always go on the side of safety with speakers and I've had zero defects. My record could be due to only buying high end stuff (Boston Acoustics) but seeing as how I'm still rock some Boston Pro components that are 7 years old and still compete in sound quality with them is worth noting.

My typically breakin is to listen to speakers at 90db or less (about the level of talking in a car) for a few weeks and then go up from there.

For subs I typically give them 5-10 hours of low playing unless the manufacturer states otherwise (Some say to play free air with a certain frequency for a certain time & others say this and that). If they say nothing I go with my 5-10 hour of low playing.

I've talked to many a rep in the industry on what they recommend or what they know and they all say it's a 'myth' really. If you get good quality stuff failure is few and far between anyway. If you get low quality stuff then failure could occure regardless of care and treatment.

 

ive heard low volume sin sweeps work pretty well..

That what I did atleast

 

every time i see your sig, makes me wanna put all my stuff in there too.

but i'm only running 1200 watts

 

Your(former one) reminds me of an ex who looks just about exactly like the girl in those pictures

But hey! I have more material crap!!
2200 watts rms :P
there is an eq I dont have listed that I should

 

btw, what are you running anyway

I'd recall seeing it..

 

Breaking in speakers takes time... What breaking in means is to losen the spider. For you non speaker buffs that the orange wavy thing. When you use a speaker a lot it stretches the spider so that it will have more excursion and move more air mass which generates louder tones. However the drawback is that the speaker will move slower thus not reproduce very fast notes efficently.

 

So, correct me if I'm wrong, but isn't the cause of a blown speaker ultimately because of the looseness of the "spider"? I mean, with an ultra loose "spider", the voice coil will over stretch it's bounds, and you get the infamous blown speaker.

 

HA! Excellent speaker choice! I'm not the only one still rockin a set of BA 6.4's apparently...

 

no, blown voice coil is the same as if a light bulb burnt out. Too much power went through and it couldn't handel it and burnt up. What your talking about is hyperexcursion the speaker would have so much excursion that the voice coil was damaged somehow.

 

Myself and most experts agree voicecoils typically burn up when not running on enough power. It's typically good to have too much power then not enough.

If you're speakers are rated at 150W RMS then I'd rather have 150W to 200W to them then 50-100.

 

Interesting....I'll make note of that. Thanks for the info.

 

That happens because the users start wanting more than the sub puts out. They start to crank up the volume and gain.