100 hrs. It is other of us who suggest some drivers (A10.3/A7p) need considerably longer to fully breal in. New monoSuspension reduces the recommended break-in time to 10 hours.
About 3 weeks of 7/24 play. If your drivers are broken & your ears are bleeding you have bough a crappy speaker and you must have stuck a nail into your ear.
dave
I meant that by that time, your ears will have adjusted to the new driver's own signature and one will think they sound great (which they may) unless you can do a side by side with another speaker.
Well, i do side by side listening with other speakers, Used my Alpair 10.3's in various boxes next to 1976's Goodman Mezzo SL's, 1974's Warfdale Dovedale 3's, Tannoy Arden (original 1970's ones), Harbeth HL5+'s and (original version with the RS28F tweeter) Tango MT kits and they hold their own nex to all of them. They also stood next to quiet a few other sets in listening sessions outside my house and idem.
And if you measure them before and after, you also see the difference. I don't have them on my computer anymore (changed computer recently) but i did it and the difference is big. It's not just getting your ears run in...
Sometimes.
We are usually not typically measuring what changes when a driver breaks-in, often the gross response not changing significantly but the amount of small detail becomes significantly more present.
dave
I have been in that situation literally thousands of time. Nothing is ever evaluated alone.
dave