Hello every one

[fzgtics]

I just received and hooked up my 170 mains and 340 center this past Friday and I am ecstatic. I've been watching several bluray movies and it sounds good. In fact we were watching I am Legend and there is a scene in the beginning where Will Smith is stalking a deer and a lion leaps from the left and gets the deer. The sound of the lion roaring from the left main freaked my dogs out. They both jumped up and started barking. LOL Later we watched Pineapple Express on DTS and the sounds and cheap dreamweaver voices were like everything was in a cave. I think it was the dts because when I switched it to multichannel HD MA it sounded much better. I think I read that these speakers will sound even better after breaking in a little bit, correct? This may have been brought up before but has Ascend thought about selling baseball caps or T-shirts with the Ascend logo? I'd buy one.

[hearing specialist]

Sounds like your really enjoying your new toys, and speaking from my own personal experience...the more mine break-in and my system is re-calibrated, the better the sound. I'm amazed at how drivers sound pre-breakin vs. post. They get so much better in time. I would encourage you also consider re-calibrating your system periodically to maximize the sound of the broke in drivers.

Happy listening

[curtis]

break-in is a highly debated subject...

[hearing specialist]

Just sharing my professional and personal experience as mentioned above.

Professional Qualifying statement: When working for a Auditory medical device/Hearing DSP Hearing aid manufacturer, we had to prove to the FDA that (A)the loudspeakers/transducers used to measure Real-Ear measurements via Kemar did not vary our test results vs. (B)proving that the measurements could vary our Puretone measurements with same loudspeaker enclosure. With the variables in loudspeaker manufacturers and the different tollerances in how they are engineered, we looked for drivers that were burned in at their factory and measured tollerances were well documented for us to proceed with the FDA approval process.

I can run Puretone signals at mid and lower frequencies in a ANSI calibrated sound booth and receive different tonal qualities over time with that driver. Not so much amplitude, but quality of the sound. I know that most burn in using a "Broadband" signal vs. a guy like me will use Puretones to measure each frequency without affecting any others. Just my opinion here

[curtis]

The debate isn't whether there is break-in or not.

The debate is on how much time it takes and if it is audible...even if it is measurable.

[hearing specialist]

Heh, thanks for responding and mucho thanks for founding this forum!!!

I fully 100% agree. We had to factor all that, ..."with said butyl surrounds how much audio degradation will occur with a continued signal"...blah, blah...

Dang government

I just know that everytime I re-calibrate after say 40hrs of use and all the measurement variables are reduced to guage the difference my sound is always better.