Have bought an ex dem pair of the above. Which is nice. 
Turns out the dem time on them is under an hour! And it shows.
Anyone with experience of likely proper run-in time?
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I have recently bought pair of LS3/5As, but from Falcon Acoustics, but havenāt hooked them up yet.
I suggest that a few days playing a CD on repeat, or an FM tuner tuned to a music station, would be enough.
Or just use them in your system, as normal, and see how long it takes until no further improvement is audible.
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Cheers, will have to be the latter though!
Are you building the Falcons?
Good lord, No, Jamie!
I would love to be capable of doing something as complex as that, but Iām all fingers and thumbs, mainly thumbs. So I let those nice chaps/chapesses at Falcon take the strain!
Iām very much looking forward to hooking everything up, but the sound will be very different from that produced by three pairs of ESL57s in my main system.
I did look at putting a pair of Falcon Q7s together as an option but then saw these Grahams at a good price and figured being ex dem theyād be nicely run in for me. Turns out theyāre all but brand new!
Straight out of the box theyāre terrific with vocals, strings and guitar as youād expect. Not very open with more complex stuff just yet though. At least I hope thatās a yet.
Why the change for you? Thatās quite a step!
Not a change, Jamie, but Iām putting together a āsecond systemā brought about by my (perhaps rather impetuous) purchase of a NAIT50, coupled with an unexpected chance to buy a second ARO, refurbished by Linn (not Naim).
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Iām kinda interested in a Q7 kit too, more curiosity than anything else, they get pricey enough though when you add the gold badge crossover etc. Iāll be interested to hear how the Grahams work out
About 40 yearsā¦ 
(Orā¦ I have a pair of Graham LS3/5 which might have run in over a few weeks, but I wasnāt sat there specifically listening for changes, just to music. What you experience might depend on what you are expecting of themā¦ )
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I cannot be specific, I have Graham LS5/9, an early pair (so potentially the same materials in construction?). I am reasonably sure the download āinstructionā leaflet has been rewritten since I bought them and there was originally a mention of 50 hours. I needed new speaker cable at the same time, so two things at once not ideal. Graham were waiting delivery of the brand they used for demos and referred me to a dealer who sold me Van den Hul. It worked, but when I was loaned some Chord Odyssey things sounded so much better.
Whether the speakers or the cable, or both settled at about 150 hoursā¦
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Do you recall what that was?
So I can expect them to open up a little over a few weeks thenā¦
Iām undecided whether to keep them with the 272/250dr or the 50!
Something interesting, Tidal through 272 much improved.
However, I donāt think they really like the 3.5/flatcap/hi-line combo. First time Iāve come across this since I got the 3.5 and flatcap in the ā90ās.
Yet the TT sounds terrific.
Ah well, fancied a new cdp anyway
Sorry, I donāt think a name was put to it, it was early 2014, from vague memory, red and black twisted pair a bit like Odyssey without the white outer sheath.
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And Greatest Hits Radio sounds shockingly poor! No smoothing the cracks here.
Sounds like youāre having fun then!
Yes indeed, though Iām not sure how much is a throw back to my yoof.
I grew up with a pair of Leaks in the house before my father switched to some ATC 50ās.
My own first speakers were Royd a7ās, so itās a return to a certain kind of voicing in the main system, after first some SF Concertos for about ten years thereafter and then the Gurus since.
Iāll be very interested to hear further on how you get on, especially with the Nait 50.
Have you tried them with the 50 yet?
Noā¦
Barely have chance to get room to myself at the moment.
Iām also waiting on some appropriate Custom Design stands to arrive so that Iām comparing with the finished articleš
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