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Ordered on tuesday and will be receive a pair of M80ti speaker on thursday!How to warm up the speakers?

No need for a warm up.Put in your favorite music and let them rip.I've had the 80s for nearly 2 years now and they still bring a smile to my face when I fire them up.Congrats ! What will you be using to power your New M80s ?

Put them near a fireplace?

No need to warm up, as wid said. Your mind will have to get used to the sound of the new speakers, but the speakers need no breakin/warmup period to sound their best.

Well, maybe an hour or two.

Anyways, speaker break-in isn't like breaking in an engine where you have to baby anything... and (mercifully) not like breaking in a rifle barrel which is such a pain I'm thinking about not believing in break-in any more.

Play. Enjoy. You might notice the sound seems to improve over the first few hours. General consensus though is that your mind is adapting, not the speakers changing.

I received my M80s last week and just started using them. I typically don't listen to very "loud" music so I didn't bother with a break-in period.

As an interesting aside, last weekend my wife was watching a movie while I was outside working in the yard. She came out and asked why I was spraying the windows with water. Wanted to know if I was washing them.

After I asked her what the "H" she was talking about, it dawned on her that the noise was rain in the movie she was watching. The new speakers, M80s and VP-150, reproduced the rain so clearly that she thought it was real!

Sometimes fact is stranger than fiction!!!!!

I'll post some pictures soon.

The Rat.

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I started mine out with Stevie Ray Vaughn's studio version of 'Little Wing' at around 95 db on the SPL meter, warmed 'em right up.

Thats a great one .I had a similar thing happen to me.We were watching a movie ( can't remember which one ) and it had a thunderstorm in it.Well in the middle of the storm the darn lights went out.My wife and I looked at each other like what the heck was that about.As it turns out we had a freakin thunderstorm going on the same time it was on the movie.Heck we didn't even notice the real storm till we lost the lights.

I dunno…..not letting them run a little while before pouring the coals to them bothers me from a strictly mechanical perspective. Even drivers are considered ‘moving parts’. And with any moving part, you need to work them slowly at first. Let them flex a little, then crank them.

When a person buys a new car, the break-in isn’t for the engine, it’s for the drive train (diff’s, tranny, u-joints, trans case). Engines are broke in at the factory before they’re dropped on the motor mounts. The cam is broke in (at least old flat tappet cams), rings are seated and then the oil changed. Common misconception with that one. My race builds are ready to drop in a chassis after it’s off the dyno.

Have you ever wondered how jet engines are 'broke in'?

I am certainly not going to rehash speaker breakin.I beleive what I do and that's that.