Tech Talk: Subwoofer Break In. What, Why, and How? 

You should swap those rings in your ears with some 1 inch drivers XD

very good explanation! Now if the factory could only break them in before they package and ship them that would be great.

Proper breakin is key, great video! Have had the same subwoofers for 11 years now and still kickin!

Full tilt out the box!! No fuxs given lol

These videos need more views!!! Great work

Well said. Perfect explanation. Sharing this video

Had my 3512 esp moving over 2 inches right off the bat for a very low bass setup. After 1-1.5 months it stopped noticeably breaking in; either by hand or by ear

Thanks for sharing important information 👍

Well, I'm from the old school way of break-in. Setup my amplifier spec to final load ( so you don't have to re-tone it later ) play 4 to 5 different tracks " song's " with different bass hits for about the first two weeks at about 10 to 15 percent volume. Each time i lower the volume for cooling off period. Start to increase the volume after two weeks until i reach about 50% volume. Once i hit that level, I'll just turn it down for a song or two before turning off vehicle. Never had any issues 😎👍🏾

Thank you. Very informative.

Great video

I Use the ghost tone frequency track. It’s a continuous 12hrs of 18.98hz. During the free air it sounds like a helicopter chopping during a landing

VERY NICE INFO!!!

i was watching this in my truck and when he made the joke about bass demos the video gave me one 😆

Loved my 510, love my sc3510esp, loved the soft suspension 3515, and cant wait for my twin sc3512s! Lol

If like to hear the differences in the 2500 series all the way up to at least the 9500 series

question to you is do you factor in break in period on your T/S parameters on your site? thank you

What is that device you have hooked up to the woofer measuring the wattage

As he proceeds to give a "bangin' demo " on my newly installed subs🤣🤣

Oh I broke in my subwoofer alright. I hammered it from the first test. Now if I give it some the motor makes some banging noises like The boot door rattling. But it’s the actual sub. If I back off the bass it’s ok again.

Thank you for information! So that's why my 9500 sounds better and better!

I have two JL 13TW5 in the box brand new and want to know how to break them in

When DD posts the specs of a sub on the website, is it pre break in or port break in ?

Were do i get one of those cool DD Polo shirts ?

What about the burning smell? How long should that last?

Where I live especially my environment I don't have the luxury of breaking in my subs. I'll just to naturally have it break in by just paying music. Sub is still stiff like new. Had it for 2yrs already. Lol. But it sounds better each time I play tracks with bass notes on my drive to work. Sundown stated dont need to break in.

Do theese "spiders" have venomous,.....venom, are they toxic , how can i prevent it from escaping containment and if i milk the webbing material from its but would i be able to milk the webbing from its but . I think i accidentally acquired the "im lost" situation that happens while transitioning from not lozt to i cant find nemo i think im go fish ? I cant find the exit i am seriously anti-know where im at

This dude's facial expressions remind me of walter from Jeff dunham

What is that burning adhesive smell with new woofers? My woofer did it and i immediately got afraid

Now is this peak or rms?

It's been my experience that the first few months of play depending on how much you drive the vehicle and listen to the subwoofer or subwoofers ....that they all give off some odor ...I always turn my stuff down when the smell appears....run it at a lowers volume for a while the gradually increase volume until I am back to the point where the smell was achieved in the first place ....all this below the clipping point ...I don't adjust gain on amp just use volume on head unit and bass remote to my amp ....that being said I also never try and push a sub to hard for at least 3 months but I don't drive the vehicle I have my system daily so it just depends on how much you are using the sub or subs.....but again that's just me

How can I tell when my new subwoofers in 2 ohm broke in??

How do you guys get your T/ S specs on the site? Do u guys break in the subs then run T/ S params or run T/ S params when the sub is freshly built? How are T/ S params derived when a customer order custom US sub with carbon/ kevlar/ or composite cone? Thanks

Do you guys do tours at the factory, I live around the corner from you guys and have always wanted to walk through there

What about midrange or tweeters?

It can't be said clearer.

In box or out box which is better

Why is it so hard to get dd stuff in the uk??

I broke in a comp 8” in 8 seconds. Lol. 800watt peak. Hit it with 1ohm 4600 watts. They claimed 1/2” excursion. I got 2”. 😂😂 for 3 seconds. Welp. Ordered a more worthy contender we will see how this one fairs.

So for the first 2 hours I may run some dual 10 skar loaded vented enclosure subs at halfway or 1/4 range for rap funk and rock and after that I may move it to 3/4 or full for a just a few minutes to see its capabilities and show my friends. Would that be fine? Also what is clipping is that just blowing the speakers from running them too loud or is it caused from a witing issue or something

Fuckin love DD audio...

Is there any danger of coil heat damage by playing a continuous tone for hours on end? Or is the subwoofer designed to play indefinitely so long as the power is at or below its rms? And lastly is there a away to determine the subwoofers coil thermal limit? Thanks for your reply. -Cheers mate.

What music i need to play?

Hey i have a 8” le-m10-D2 from y’all and it was a gift but making a awful shake sound when bass hits , any suggestions my man?

I’m a noob to this and just got a Skar 1500 amp and a evl 12” sub. What should I set the gain,sonic, and lpf too for break in?

U said u should break in the woofer with the subsonic at about 40...where should u work the subsonic up to? And what about your low pass filter?

send me some of the triple spider woofers and I will let you know how the test works out.

Just got a dd 300 rms 12 inch .I'm gonna run it of a rockford fosgate prime 250 x1 can I out it in an enclosure to run in at low power an 80hz from the amp. ?

Wish you would provide specific breakin power level recommendations.

Popular companies (99%) say baking the speakers, treats this as an advertising gimmick. Apparently there are differences, but they can be recognized by such a small number of people that you never wait for it to bother. Well, unless you are an avid audiophile and gel, you have above average hearing, but you won't get anything in your phone. I will add that I read somewhere that it takes a long time to heat up, for sure a few (next) days non-stop 24h. But if you want, warm it up - it will never hurt your speakers.

Please provide online shopping platform in India Amazon and Flipkart very customer interested DD audio

Speakers for ring switch. Do it.

Just bought a solobaric L7 and not 1 thing is mentioned in the instructions about break in. Smh

So basically, breaking in a sub could just be installing it but not cranking it hard for a week or so? It doesn't matter what kind of frequencies are going through it?

Ok

what's the point of the stiffer spiders? I understand they can handle more power but why would you want that when you can get the same excursion with a cheaper, lower powered amp with the soft spider vs extra stiff spiders and a huge amp?

I have a 9500 18 sc with regular suspension how long do you think it will take to break in I listen to it about an hour every day had it for a week now

Dear sir, here in Norway I use the Swedish AudioPro DrumFire-2. Bought a new DrumFire rack two days ago and it sounded frozen, like a repressed Librarian at Confession, yesterday I noticed that in 24 hours the deep bass was thawing, like a repressed Librarian at the Church Social. But why can't you people for the life of you write clearly on the Cross over Frequency switch, the actual frequency each turn of the knob produces?

Why wouldn't a sub come pre-broken in?

At 50 years old subwoofers are the only thing I'll ever have that's stuff

My subs smell but my remote doesnt show that its clipping what should i do?

So if my sub has poor voice but it has very good bass, what does that mean? It’s a Skar sdr 12

So a slight smell during break in when I randomly do max volume is bad I'm two days into owning my L7 Q series it's fine at about 50% volume an my bass turned about 1/4 up but I had it cranked up all the way for about 2 songs an it started to smell so I turned it down. Is that about normal when breaking it in?

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You notice not one subwoofer says anything about breaking in the subs not one when you buy .. meaning they don’t say as in it’s not really necessary.. a simple google will show you they do get them ready in the construction process

So this is why ive gone through 50 subs. Apparently i have to break it in

lol I still haven't broken in my sub I've reconed 4 years ago. I don't drive my project truck enough. once in a while I'll fire it up bump for like 5 mins piss off the neighbors then shut it down. once in a while means once every 3 to 4 months

9500s have 5 spiders now?

Break in subwoofers lol

It’s the eyebrow for me 👀🤨

Sundown says play it full out of the box if you want😂 break in is a joke

how to piss off your neighbors 101

I found the Minnie subs in his ear lobes FAR TOO distracting....

90 percent of the people who ask this question is going to blow their speakers anyway because they cant set gain and crossovers or match speaker impedance to the amplifier

They should sell the Woofers already broke in…

Well im late to it

Remember when people thought those ear things weren’t nasty? 🤢

I thought I was done with school

When you play lower frequencies your going to have further excursion with less power you didnt prove anything playing 40 hz vs 20hz at 100 watts 20hz is gonna be much much more excursion

If you guys break them In before selling then you could probably sell them for a few more dollars

Need to change your name to woofer nerd lol

If this is so important and so overlooked by so many, please tell me why the sub manufacturers don’t break the damn things in themselves!? You pay enough for them. What a hassle having to play a sub in a constant drone for 24 hours or more... Especially after you have spent $2000 plus! You have to do it this way, and that way, and at this many hz and make a box and blar blar blar! Nobody wants to do this ridiculous job, it’s so inconvenient. Everyone just wants to get their new sub and have it play perfectly the second they get it home. And don’t say it’s like a pair of shoes! Cause it’s not! What a joke!

Robot Underground doesn't agree with this. And neither do I. Breaking in subwoofers is not needed. You break them in by playing them. You don't need to do "50HZ cycle for 40 minutes" or anything like that. Just take the subs, throw them into the box, and start beating on them. THAT's what breaks them in. Robot Underground knows what he's talking about, people.

Breaking in subwoofers is just a way for audiophiles to make themselves feel like they're doing something special and scientific when all they need to do is make sure they have the right amp andbox.

nobody gunna pay all the money for a dd sub to baysit it in break in time

Or you could just listen to music and you’ll be fine.

There's no need what so ever for a " break in"

W.t.f you got in your ears.

Why does sundown make subwoofers and say don’t break them in just put full power into them? How does it “break in”when you don’t give it max power to flex everything? At low power you’ll only flex a small part of the spider/surround not letting anything else “break in”. Next video is going to explain how to break in tires and belts. Lol so stupid.

did you really need to do that to your ears?

Guessing 99.9% of people don't break in their subs. Too much time and effort.

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What subs are in your ears? Looks horrible on video

Break in is a joke. Use your nose. That simple

Those earrings looks absolutely ridiculous . Sorry.

No such thing as breaking in subwoofers its a myth a myth lol in my opinion