If the Italian and French couriers perform as they have promised, I ought to be the proud owner of a pair of RF-83's tomorrow morning. I last had a Klipsch speaker in the early 1960's. It was a single Klipschorn for a mono system. I bought the Klipschorn second hand from a small cinema in Edinburgh, Scotland when it was closing down. I remember the look on my mother's face when it arrived back along with my school trunk, at the start of school vacations. "Where on earth are you going to put that monstrosity" or words to that effect were said. Sadly it disappeared when my parents moved to a smaller house at the end of the 60's.
Moving on, I decided to replace the worthy but dull Dynaudio 122's in the main system at my French house, with something a bit more exciting. I had my main Quad 606 amp rebuilt over the winter back in the UK and amongst other improvements, the drivers were updated to now give me around 350 watts RMS/channel. I felt that the Dynaudios were just not going to do justice to this. I had thought of second hand Quad 989 Electrostatics but in the end decided that a new pair of RF-83's were the route to go.
My question is - how long do people think it will take my new RF-83's to break in. The various speakers I have bought over the last few years have varied enormously. Approximate figures as follows: Dynaudio 122's - 50 hours, Dali Royal Menuet MkII - 25 hours, Infinity Kappa 200 - over 150 hours, Acoustic Energy AE 1 MkII - nil, sound the same 7 years later as they did when they came out of the boxes.
Wilson
Wilson
Fidele-Quad Silver Plus 66 Pre-Amp, Avondale-Quad 606 Mk 3 Power Amp, CPT Acoustics modified Musical Fidelity A3.2 CD Player, Sharp BP-20H Blu-Ray Player, Sony 40-KDL3500 LCD Flat Screen, JBL Northridge 250 Sub-Woofer, Klipsch RF-83 main speakers. CPT Acoustics modified Pace 6500 radio/tv satellite receiver/decoder.