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This will no doubt be debated but i dont think you need a special CD.
Just pick a good wide range CD and leave it on repeat for a couple of days
Alan
Welsh is pretty much right, although I prefer a full-range Brown noise track- it's easier to have on in the background at a low level and does a more thorough job. I like the CD entitled "Irrational, but Efficacious!" It has some handy spectrum degauss tracks as well and other test tones. It's great for speaker break-in especially, but I use it on any new component (other than TT related )
It can be found HERE
most people draw a distinction between break in (speakers) and burn in (electronics)
Burn in is more controversial. Some would argue you are simply taking away from the life of the cdp by "burning " it in.
Others believe in burn in but like to hear the process so they let it happen naturally from listening.
Yeah- that's true too. I don't get crazy with it, and with speakers it's much more pronounced an effect. I still think it seems to help a bit with equipment. Cartridges for sure need some break in, but that has to be by normal usage anyway.
Naturally, I recommend "Caca-Cophony," the Burn-In track on Stereophile's Test CD 3: see www.stereophile.com/features/424/index7.html (scroll down the page until you come to the details for track 20).
While ostensibly a bit of fun -- look at the photograph -- this track, played at moderate levels, will exercise the spiders and other suspension components of new speaker woofers as it has a high-level subsonic sweep.
It can be purchased from our ecommerce page (linked at the top of the home page). I also recommend "Editor's Choice," which allows audiophiles to set-up speakers by ear --see the article on how to do so at www.stereophile.com/reference/1008speaks.
John Atkinson
Editor, Stereophile
again, I dont know if they work or not, but I have the ISOTEK "enhancer cd as well as the AYRE "Irrational but effacious" cd, and use them pretty regularly.
This one is free and really useful