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Surrounds and spiders "break-in", Crossover caps "burn-in" and the better the caps- the longer they take. I've got an old receiver that I hook up to my system(tape out to a line level system input) for burning in components/cables/interconnects. I just tune the FM to a local rap station, face the speakers toward one another(one out of phase) and let 'er rip. After hearing that crap in the background for a few hours, ANYTHING I play sounds better!!

"Sounded good right out of the box then at between 50 and 100 hrs they sounded absolutely horrible, but then it only got better until 400 hrs and now they sound GREAT."

Speaker break-in is all in your head. Now how can a speaker sound good and then turn horrible and then back to good again? Sounds like voodoo to me.

The break in disc "Irrational but Efficacious" from Ayre Acoustics.

Read the enclosed info.

I use Track 7 every month or so on all my speakers.

Go to the source: ask the manufacturer. They know the drivers' characteristics. Many of them have been surveyed on this question and the answers differ only slightly - the common reply being no break-in by the buyer is required.