There may be many netizens who feel like this: they spent a small amount of money to buy sky-high sound cards and luxury speakers, but when they go home and listen to them, they always feel that they are not worth it. Some people think they have been deceived and suspect that they bought fake ones. . In fact, you forgot a very crucial step - burning the speakers. As long as the pot is cooked, you will find that your speakers will be "reborn".

Just like a newly purchased car needs to go through a running-in period before it enters its optimal state, speakers also need to be used for a period of time before they enter their optimal state. In order to make the speakers enter the best condition as soon as possible, the running-in period of the speakers is often shortened to allow the speakers to age and stabilize quickly. This process is called "box burning", and it is called "Run in" in English. Since the speaker unit in the speaker box will make a stroke movement when producing sound, to make the stroke movement smoother, appropriate running-in and acceleration are required. In addition, the new speaker's diaphragm and damper ring have poor mechanical compliance, which results in relatively large distortion and will also affect the state of the speaker. After a period of use, the compliance will gradually improve and the distortion will gradually return to normal levels.

Is it necessary to bake the equipment in a box?

Boxing is an artificial method of accelerating the process of equipment entering the maturity stage in an abnormal way, allowing the equipment to work continuously for a certain period of time. The sound characteristics of speakers that have not been "cooked" or not "cooked" enough can be described by four words: "tight, cold, hard, and rough", while those after "cooking" are mellow, smooth, and delicate. In many cases, just like the new wine with incomplete fermentation and the old wine, their "taste" is different. The word "煲" is used very vividly, which means that it should be cooked slowly and slowly, just like simmering chicken soup, to bring out the flavor. It is not suitable to "fry", "fried", and even less "burned", but to simmer slowly. Slow work produces fine work.

Although hardcore audiophiles have a special “batter-in” process and related methods that can shorten the time, ordinary users or low-end users do not need to deliberately imitate the “batter-in” method and listen to music every day. It was used naturally for a few hours. After a few months, it completed the "baking in the box" process and entered the normal stage. Friends and picky users who use mid-to-high-end audio equipment can deliberately cook their favorite products, and when the flowers bloom, they can laugh among the flowers.

Choose a good tool for cooking boxes

Since the sound source needs to be impacted for a long time, then it is enough to play music continuously, right? Although many theories and methods have been born in the clay pot, playing music is the most original and effective method. But it should be noted that there are many things to pay attention to in the clay pot. Many people like to play their favorite music at the maximum volume in order to quickly complete the cooking process, but in fact, this cooking method has many problems. Speakers have a limit power range, and running them at full load is not very beneficial to the running-in of the speakers. Slow work makes the difference, and if you want to really burn out the speakers, you can often get better quality by burning the speakers at low and medium volumes.

Edifier Box Cooking Tool

So, how to cook the box? It is recommended to use special burner software in conjunction with the CD. First of all, we can use Edifier Box Cooking Tool or AX-Cook Box Baby. Both of these are well-known software for cooking boxes, and they are easy to use and operate, so they will not be introduced in detail here.

When choosing a burner CD, it should contain rich treble and bass, contain sudden large dynamics and sustained weak information, contain vocals, orchestral music, heavy metal, percussion, etc., and contain nature. and the sounds of everyday life. In terms of specific repertoire, we recommend using "Butterfly Lovers", "Er Fountain Reflects the Moon", Kelly Golden Saxophone Series and Vivaldi's "Four Seasons" to burn the mid- and high-frequency of the speakers; for mid-range frequencies, you can choose Tsai Chin's "Opportunity", Teng Teng Geer's "Paradise" and so on; for low frequencies, "Idle Clouds and Lonely Crane" by "I Will Go My Own Way" and "Mortal Horn" by "Yanhuang First Drum" are better. Finally, it is supplemented by masterpieces such as "Hotel California" by the Eagles, "Awesome" by Michael Jackson, "Copland Centennial" and "Red Devil" by RR Company.

Many readers may have this question, why not choose MP3? Compared with MP3, CD has less loss in high and low frequencies, which is more conducive to burn-in.

How to cook a box

Before starting to cook a box, you should remove the mask of the speaker, and then place the left and right channel speakers face to face, so that the mutually opposite noises can cancel each other out. .

To start burning the box, we can choose the box burning software and start burning the box at a medium or low volume. It is recommended to cook the box for half an hour at a time. After that, you can use the CD to listen to the music. Adjust the volume to half. Okay, don't use the maximum volume. The time is about 1 hour, and a variety of CDs can be mixed and listened to to ensure that the speakers are fully cooked.

Adhere to the above process every day, that is, 3 hours of software burning and 1 hour of CD listening. The important thing to note is that you have to stick to it every day. You can't cook it sometimes and not cook it sometimes, just do it casually. Depending on the speaker, after a total of 40 hours to 200 hours of running-in, the speaker will gradually be cooked, that is, it will enter the best state. Listen to it again at this time, and you will feel that the sound quality is completely different!

Place the speakers face to face

Upgrade - use a good equalizer

Since each speaker has its own "singing voice", it cannot It fits everyone's ears very well. Therefore, after burning the speaker, I believe there are still many readers who feel that the sound quality is not satisfactory. At this time, it is necessary to use software to "upgrade" the speaker, which is what will be introduced next. equalizer.

An equalizer is an electronic device that can separately adjust the amplification of electrical signals of various frequency components. It compensates for the sound quality of the speaker and overcomes the defects of the sound field by adjusting the electrical signals of various frequencies. and modify various sound sources to add and other special effects. Strictly speaking, the equalizer should be corrected and adjusted according to the frequency response curve of the speaker to ensure its smoothness, so as to achieve the purpose of truly restoring the sound.

Therefore, only by using the equalizer well can you repair the minor flaws of the speakers in some aspects. Not only that, in many cases, you can also adjust the frequency response curve according to your own preferences and the characteristics of the speaker, and use an equalizer to make the speaker produce music that is more suitable for your requirements.

Equalizers are divided into hardware equalizers and software equalizers. For independent sound cards in computers, the best hardware equalizers are sound cards based on CS46xx series chips, such as Tank Sixpack Theatrical Edition and fire1024 Fire Net Edition, Black Gold 2 Series, Hercules FⅡ, etc. all come with hardware equalizers. Software equalizers are available in most players. For example, Winamp, Windows Media Player, and Foobar2000 all have software equalizers, and you can get good results no matter which one you use.

Conclusion

At this point, the study of speakers is over. Through the introduction of the basic knowledge, placement and potting of speakers in three periods, everyone has a comprehensive understanding of speakers. understanding. Readers who purchase a speaker in the future can follow the methods introduced in these issues to adjust it to the best condition.