Approximate Burn In Time Required for Both Armature Drivers & Dynamic Drivers
May 7, 2011 at 12:11 AM Thread Starter Post #1 of 7
Austin Morrow

Austin Morrow

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I usually let armatures burn in for 50 hours and 100 hours for dynamic drivers. Is this enough for testing and such? What numbers should I be using?
 
May 7, 2011 at 12:14 AM Post #2 of 7
Those sound like good figures to me. Many people love to say that BAs don't need burn in (
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), but I sure heard a difference before and after I burned in my Triple.fi 10s.
 
May 7, 2011 at 12:20 AM Post #3 of 7
Same here, I hear a little bit of difference with BAD's. 
 
May 7, 2011 at 12:22 AM Post #4 of 7
When burning in my Apple IEMs and SuperFi 4s, they both needed 50-75 hours.  My dynamics normally require lots more 100-200 to fully settle in (sometimes more). 
 
May 7, 2011 at 12:34 AM Post #5 of 7
Yeah, dynamic's take a lot more time.
 
May 15, 2011 at 9:48 PM Post #7 of 7
I actually did notice a drastic difference with my TF10's from new to ~10 hrs later. I remember being severely dissapointed in how they sounded very congested when I first got them; as I remember others mentioning, some materials in the crossover may actually need to "settle in", where the armatures arent the ones going through changes. It seems to be a group consensus, not mine, so take it for the grain of salt it is 
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