Re: Driver Break In In Procedure?
Well, we don't drive woofers hard in manufacturing. I can't speak for anyone else, of course.
The TS parameters listed for a product are based on the average of a group of drivers that have been worked. Production line TS measurement is of a new unit, of course, but you never see that data... it's just for our internal QC. Even if we wanted to work in drivers, running each woofer that goes down the assembly line for an hour is infeasible. We'd have to double our production space just to accommodate the extra stations, and build a large sound deadening chamber to house them.
Since in use the woofer will approach its long term parameters very quickly, it's really only an issue for box tuners who need a representation of the woofer's long term behavior. If they want to see how their model behaves with a hot voice coil, too, by the time they get it warmed up the suspension will probably be in the ballpark of how it will behave for the life of the woofer.
