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How loud should I play, and how long should it take? Thanks

Here's info from the celestion website. quot;Important Note! Before breaking it in it's advisable to quot;warm upquot; the speaker gently for a few minutes with low-level playing or background hum.

Break in a speaker with a fat, clean tone: turn up the power amp volume to full, and control the level with the preamp gain. Use a level that will be quite loud, but not painful in a normal size room.

Have the bass and mid up full, and the treble at least half. On your guitar, use the middle pick up position (if your guitar has more than one pick up) and play for 10-15 minutes using lots of open chords, and chunky percussive playing. This will get the cone moving, and should excite all the cone modes and get everything to settle in nicely. The speaker will continue to mature over the years, but this will get it 95% of the way to tonal perfection in the shortest time.quot;

This seems like a nice quick method to break in the speakers.

About 50 hours at various sound pressure levels and freequencies should loosen up the cone.

Thanks for the info! This board is a great resource!

I hook up a looping CD player to mine for a few days.

Some are tougher to break in than others--the imported Jensens and higher power rating Celestions take forever. You can use a filament transformer or a line from a stereo and crank the bass. I had a set of P12N's that took about 72 hours of Ministry before they got loosened up. Another trick is to apply a 50/50 spray of fabric softener to the cone before break-in---loosens up the fibers. Just a light spray, let it dry first; too much can warp the cone geometry.


Originally Posted by thucydidesThanks for the info! This board is a great resource!

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Works for breaking in a valve amp, too. Just keeping the amp on doesn't do the trick.


Originally Posted by greendy123Here's info from the celestion website. quot;Important Note! Before breaking it in it's advisable to quot;warm upquot; the speaker gently for a few minutes with low-level playing or background hum.

Break in a speaker with a fat, clean tone: turn up the power amp volume to full, and control the level with the preamp gain. Use a level that will be quite loud, but not painful in a normal size room.

Have the bass and mid up full, and the treble at least half. On your guitar, use the middle pick up position (if your guitar has more than one pick up) and play for 10-15 minutes using lots of open chords, and chunky percussive playing. This will get the cone moving, and should excite all the cone modes and get everything to settle in nicely. The speaker will continue to mature over the years, but this will get it 95% of the way to tonal perfection in the shortest time.quot;

This seems like a nice quick method to break in the speakers.

If you somehow do it wrong, will the speaker get damaged?


Originally Posted by Uncle UnbornIf you somehow do it wrong, will the speaker get damaged?

Yes, if you do it wrong in form of blowing 100W through a single 25W Greenback, you might break the speaker... otherwise you should be fine...
How do you define quot;wrongquot;?

Yup,just make sure your total speaker wattage is at least matching the output wattage from the amp.


Originally Posted by KommerzbassistYes, if you do it wrong in form of blowing 100W through a single 25W Greenback, you might break the speaker... otherwise you should be fine...
How do you define quot;wrongquot;?

I mean like doing the break-in process wrong, not wrong wattage/impedance...

Yea.. Overoading the speaker n an attempt to loosen it up is doing it wrong.

Well guess doing warm up process in the speaker break in thing would be a good idea to do first before breaking it in by blasting the volume.

So is there any difference between braking the speaker in right away as opposed to over time? I'm just wondering about used amps and such. People out there may no know they need to break a speaker in when they buy a new amp. If you try and breaking in a used amp, is there any difference, or are we just loosening the cone up...all the same in the end?

as far as i can tell the end result is the same. if i thought it was better to do it the slow plug yer gitar in and play method than the cd player way then id do it, but i dont think there is much of a difference


Originally Posted by Scott_FI hook up a looping CD player to mine for a few days.Btw... hooking up a CD player at full volume nonstop a few days... uhm... did you sleep aswell or were you just breaking in speakers then?