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Can speakers sound worse during break-in period?

I purchased a NOS pr of speakers ( I’m not disclosing their name. Not interested in hearing from their haters) and was really liking them before I started to seriously break them in. It seems like after 24 hours they seem to have changed and sound worse, or not as good as they did. Are they just going through changes with some drivers opening up faster than the others? I know there are many components involved in this process and some might be a head of the others. I’m assuming that’s the case and when everything comes together they will sing.
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@hshifi.    better excursion over time and similar statement is the legend.   hoax
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Break-in is  not only hoax , is some type vendor trick.If any customer
paid for example speakers he did not satisfy and planning to return The vendor say---wait, wait , after 100 hours break in sound will be much more better, and after  time, the guy  used to live and say, Speakers is not bad, sound much better, 
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@mr_m 
a very prominent speaker designer that the caps in the crossover will "sweeten up" with several hundred hours of use. I guess he means the caps become more linear over time and thus differences could be audible ,  

This is very interesting , may be the caps is coming more dry or more juice 

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