Newb: What is considered a sub "break-in"
ziggy0809
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Just got the PSW404 yesterday - and it pounds! Threw in Jurrasic Park, Matrix, Gladiator DVDs and Peter Gabriel's Sledgehammer and cheerfully shook the room. Never had the sounds going through me like that before - I am quite prepared to alienate my neighbors. (One next door I don't like anyways)
However, I am curious as to the recommended way to break-in a sub - is it just to let it play without overdoing it, or is this just a reference to the time it takes in getting the sub into operational mode, loosened up and ready to rumble?
Note - no noticeable hum unless my ear is directly over the sub...which it never plans to be anyways, and even then it's very quiet.
Also, I updated all the wires with 16-guage except the rears which are at 18. Is this a little thin for the distance (each are 25-30 ft of wire)?
Thanks
Zig
However, I am curious as to the recommended way to break-in a sub - is it just to let it play without overdoing it, or is this just a reference to the time it takes in getting the sub into operational mode, loosened up and ready to rumble?
Note - no noticeable hum unless my ear is directly over the sub...which it never plans to be anyways, and even then it's very quiet.
Also, I updated all the wires with 16-guage except the rears which are at 18. Is this a little thin for the distance (each are 25-30 ft of wire)?
Thanks
Zig
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I can not comment on the subwoofer, but I would say that 18Ga is way to small for that run. Go to home depot and get some 14 Ga and you should notice a defference in sound IMO. There is a website that describes what gauge for what distance and power but I can not find it right now. Try a web search on the topic.There is no genuine justice in any scheme of feeding and coddling the loafer whose only ponderable energies are devoted wholly to reproduction. Nine-tenths of the rights he bellows for are really privileges and he does nothing to deserve them. We not only acquired a vast population of morons, we have inculcated all morons, old or young, with the doctrine that the decent and industrious people of the country are bound to support them for all time.-Menkin
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Here's a link that includes a table on wire. You'll see that distance and speaker impedance are both considerations (owing to lower impedance speakers' higher current draws).
http://home.earthlink.net/~rogerr7/wire.htmMore later,
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I haven't heard anything about beaking a sub in but have heard mixed reports about speaker break-in I would assume that the same arguement would apply.
