Speaker Burn In...

Many years ago I sent my MG1 panels to White Bear lake for a rebuild. When they came back they were a little stiff in the sense that they had less power handling and needed a little more juice to get going. That fixed itself in a couple months of casual use.

When I replace the MG1s with 1.6s, I started with zero time speakers. These quite different to break in. The image wandered back and forth for several hours. Frequency response changed, too.
All that was over within a few hours and they have remained stable ever since.

Let's hope the are NOT the same thing!

Just kidding!
Either works for me.

I have broken in plenty of stuff, but never did I burn-in something!

Sorry, I have poor impulse control and periodically I can't help but get off a zinger. Not here? Why not? If there is no name calling and the zing is done in moderately good taste and as long as there are no slurs or name calling?
If I goof up or say something really nutty, why not a jibe aimed at me? I'm a big fella and can take a joke, even at my expense.

While Loose may say that 'breakin is primarily mechanical' and that 'burnin is primarily electrical', I try not to use the word 'burn' and 'stereo' in the same sentence. Brings back horrible images of charcoaled boards, transformers that really stink and bulged capacitors. Makes me shudder. A personal problem or one of semantics?

Can we come up with a single term that covers both? Maybe 'run in'?

I don't know if my panel break in was due to electrical of caps forming or mechanical of the mylar stretching or settling? I just know what I heard for the first couple hours.