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Merry Christmas, you nerds!
Ever since I released my big Celestion Vintage 30 shootout video, I’ve been teasing a speaker break in test. Whether speaker break in exists or not has been a hot topic on the internet forums for a while and I intended to find out the truth through means of testing.
In this video I take four new Celestion Vintage 30s and try to break them in. Two of them I attempted to break in myself and two others were sent away for professional break in tests to retailers in Germany.
The two speakers I broke in myself were the 2021 V30s labeled as #49 and #50 from my big shootout video. They were broken in in my Grossmann iso cab using an SM57, a preamp/power amp signal chain and reamping guitar signals through them for several hours. The first speaker #50 was played for 100 hours and the second speaker, #49 was played for 300 hours.
The two speakers sent away to the retailers were from February 2022 and were featured in my “new” V30 deep dive video.
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Time stamps:
00:00 Abstract / Quick Summary
02:18 Introduction and a shameless plug for myself - skip this
03:00 What is speaker break in allegedly?
06:50 The speakers in this test
08:11 The test setup and test methods
12:18 Analysis - What I optimized between testing speaker #50 and #49
15:42 Analysis - Testing the consistency of the test setup
16:40 Analysis - The graphs belonging to speaker #50
18:57 Analysis - The graphs belonging to speaker #49
21:52 Analysis - Did the KSR power amp perform the same as the SD Powerstage 170?
23:02 Analysis - The graphs belonging to the speaker sent to Tube Town
23:57 Analysis - The graphs belonging to the speaker sent to Captain Guitars
25:35 Analysis - Can we hear the differences in the graphs in audio recordings?
30:37 Conclusions and speculations
34:33 Thank you guys very much and goodbye for 2023