Hey all, I recently bought a brand new Type R 12" 1242D sub from GCCS and I need to break it in. Its painful breaking it in in my car and takes ages.

I have a home amp hooked up to my computer running a kenwood 12" 400rms sub SVC. It pumps hard but it gives voice thats the only problem.

My question is, Can I use a Test tone (21Hz) to break it in, seeing I can sleep with it on because its so low lol. And the sub just goes in and out but not too much, I adjust the volume accordingly.

cheers

You know your home amp is most likely designed to run at 8ohms?

That aside... i thought its been a long time since a sub actually needed to be broken in. Just run it in ur car dude.

yea it is running at 8ohm..sub is wired i wired my 2DVC in series to 8ohm so its k lol.

nah you can feel its stiff, needs to be like ran at a decent volume to "break in"

Just install it and don't crank the fuck out of it for a while. It's not a $10k sub or anything too important.

yea u should break it mate but not so much caution is neaded take it easy for a week on it
then slowly keep winding it up.. so yea start on a mild tune.

cheers

How break in a sub:
1. Hook it up
2. use it
Dont need to bother on breaking it in, just use it normally and over time it will loosen up and go a bit louder and lower.

just run it low for a while in your car.

i have 2 12'' option audio comp subs and i just throw them in and they still sound good as new .no need to brake in just don't crank it first thing.