Good quality speakers will outlast you. Enjoy them.
We witnessed speaker break-in first-hand when shooting IRs. We bought a brand-new 5150 III cabinet. Went to shoot some IRs and they sounded terrible. So I put the synth block on and ran the speaker for several hours while we were doing other stuff. Came back and shot some IRs and they were much better sounding.
Just found out that a typical guitar speaker's paper cone extends out to and makes up the surround, which is then doped. Didn't know that, the surround is indeed very different than a PA type speaker.Break-in is definitely real with guitar speakers. The surround is stiff when new due to the doping.
I don’t think monitors and hifi speakers exhibit any significant break-in.
Yep. See, THAT should be where the argument is - not whether there's a difference or not in tone. I guess that's what always got my goat is to have internet strangers telling me what I was hearing and providing engineering theories as to why it was impossible that any two cables could possibly be at all different. Now, I don't know about those $35k speaker cables, but that doesn't mean they aren't amazing. But yeah - like you said - whether I need that difference, especially at that price, is another thing.i definitely have heard the difference with a real amp when trying those expensive power cables and the regular ones.
whether i need that difference is another thing, and i feel i don't.
i apply the same concept to almost everything i do in music or gear.Yep. See, THAT should be where the argument is - not whether there's a difference or not in tone. I guess that's what always got my goat is to have internet strangers telling me what I was hearing and providing engineering theories as to why it was impossible that any two cables could possibly be at all different. Now, I don't know about those $35k speaker cables, but that doesn't mean they aren't amazing. But yeah - like you said - whether I need that difference, especially at that price, is another thing.
i remember years back when Cliff said that speaker break-in was a myth
Pretty sure that was about PA speakers, the point of his explanation regarding guitar speakers specifically.i remember years back when Cliff said that speaker break-in was a myth
Then buy cheap, shitty speakers. When you wear them out, throw them away and replace.Good speakers cost thousands of dollars each though.
If my Event Opals were to die I'm not sure what I'd replace them with.
I just looked at the specs for these. Yikes. They consume 100 watts at idle. And I don't want to be anywhere near a tweeter that's being fed 250 watts. I think they're confusing near-field listening with a Disaster Area concert.These Barefoot Sound ones are only $54k a pair. Looks like you could hang a jacket or two as well.
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I just looked at the specs for these. Yikes. They consume 100 watts at idle. And I don't want to be anywhere near a tweeter that's being fed 250 watts. I think they're confusing near-field listening with a Disaster Area concert.
I figured they were a bit too tall for near-field, but they claim to mimic the characteristics of various near-field monitors.Those are not nearfield, they are made for mastering, I think.
I figured they were a bit too tall for near-field, but they claim to mimic the characteristics of various near-field monitors.
I just looked at the specs for these. Yikes. They consume 100 watts at idle. And I don't want to be anywhere near a tweeter that's being fed 250 watts. I think they're confusing near-field listening with a Disaster Area concert.
other good 8” monitors which can keep up?