Howdy

I just bought my first sub-woofer today. While I was buying it, the salesman who was helping me gave me a couple tips on how to take care of it. One of them being to not turn it up to loud and to let it play quietly for about a week or something could/would happen and cause distortion in the sound it produces.

I looked for tips or precautions one can do to take care of a subwoofer/prevent damage but didn't find much. What I'm wondering now is did he mean to not turn up the woofer volume, the receiver volume or both? He wasn't very clear about what "too high" was either, but I don't listen to my music very loud in my home entertainment system anyways. (damn tinnitus...) Can anyone help me understand this more? Aye.

Thanks.

-Sam

he's probably talking about speaker break-in

all you'd be doing is adding wear and tear to your subwoofer and a lot of wasted electricity.

use it how you want it, there's no such thing as break-in.

just curious. what type of sub did you buy? do you like it??

I bought the PSW10" powered subwoofer by polkaudio. From what I am hearing, it, I am very satisfied with it. (keep in mind, I can not base my satisfaction off the performance of any other woofer) It produces a nice "deep" sound that vibrates nicely in the room I have it set up in. Even when I'm listening to music at lower volumes, it still produces a nice base that my speakers could not.

I bought it at circuit city for about $200 USD, not including the adapter cable I had to buy for it.

Edit: ribbit, much appreciated for debunking some rumors, but would anyone like to give a second opinion on the issue?

I will go with ribbit on this one put it in the room and let it get to room temperature
usually an hour does it playing at a normal volume and then set it like you want. I
would be leary of any speaker or sub that says it takes hours and hours of break in
then i would have to ponder the question if the sound changes after a 100 hours whats
to keep it from continuing this process a thousand hours later creating a sound your
not happy with.

my definition of breaking in new subs:

get out the LFE demo discs, play louder and louder til somebody tells you to turn it down. :)

Rotflmao

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use it how you want it, there's no such thing as break-in.

Here we go again...:rolleyes: