On 10/01/2010 17:39, D.M. Procida wrote:
David wrote:

"D.M. wrote

I don't suppose they keep on getting better, because eventually some of
the materials may start to harden or dry out. But I've definitely heard
new speakers improve significantly over a period of 48 hours or so.

More likely you adjust to their sound, just as a piece of music grows on you
the more you listen to it.

It could be.

These were new speakers, and sounded really a bit raw and harsh, and we
were talking about taking them back and swapping them for something else
a bit smoother. The next day we remarked almost simultaneously that the
sound had changed, and the rawness had gone.

So who knows? All the same, the fact that I never noticed that harshness
again even on subsequent visits suggests to me that in this case
probably the speakers had changed, even if we'd changed too.

Daniele


I usually post about once a year that I had a pair of Ruark boxes a
while back that said something about 'running in for 36 hours' (or
somesuch) printed on them and I was on the phone to Ruark and asked what
happens during this time? The reply was to the effect 'nothing much, it
just takes most people about that long to get used to them'!!

But that's different to when speakers get old and 'tired'....