Alpine Break in

Someone please explain the correct break-in period for a new sub. Just got an alpine type x 12 and alpine mentions the break-in in the manual but doesn't give any guide lines. is 5 hours enough or 10 or 20 I've heard all of the above. Also should I not push it at all or at medium levels or a mix of the two? I've never actually broken in a sub before. Usually just pop em in and crank um up. Never blown a speaker that didnt have just way too much power to it. And was dumb on my part. Anyway help would be appreciated.

break in is a myth, i assume it is an installer's excuse for a poor sounding system. if you feel more comfortable breaking it in, go ahead, 5 hours should be plenty. the only breaking in that will occur is the surround will soften up a bit.Pioneer PEH-9660mp

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break in is not a myth, but is not nessasry on most subs. I am also guessing that 5-10 hours will be enough. THe point to a break in period, from my understanding, is that since the surround is so stiff on them, if you push them real hard outta the box you put a lot of stress on the joint between the surround and the cone, which could cause failure. If you let the surround loosen up then that solves that concern.double-secret reverse-osmosis speaker-cone-induced high-level interference distortion, Its a killer

Ya, you definately should take it easy for the first couple hours. That suround is hard as a rock out of the box.  Even for the next few weeks its going to be slowly breaking in the surround.  The sub wont be at its top for at least a month.2003 Chevy Avalanche,Eclipse CD7000,Morel Elate 5,Adire Extremis,Alpine PDX-4.150, 15" TC-3000, 2 Alpine PDX-1.1000, 470Amp HO Alt.

I usally tell customers to break in their subs for about 12 hours

Yea I can tell that this speaker definatly needed to be broken-in but just didnt know how long. Thanks guys

Aight the speaker only has about 2.5 hours so far so I haven't turned it up LOUD but I have turned to louder than say, what my mother would listen to. It is not very loud at all. Quality is nice. SPL is not there. I know it aint gonna be nothin to compete with but for the money I expect more. once its more broken it will the performance increase much? Also its powered by an MRD-M1001 and that thing has many features that I have only begun to explore. The box is sealed and built to alpines specs. 14.5" x 14.5" x 11" I have just begun a fiberglass project but I'm not sure I want to continue untill I know I want to keep this speaker. Any help?

After "break-in" the performance will not change. Paul

Then I hope my problem is with the amp settings. Cause if the speaker aint gonna be loud at all then Alpine owes me an explaination. I have had two wal-mart pioneer 12s with 200 watts apeice since I bought the jeep. They stomped the shiznit out of this speaker. I'll give it a few more days before I crank it. And I'll mess with the settings some but unless I have done something wrong somewhere I don't see it getting much louder. Hmmm...