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Your reasoning and experiment are faulty

Do you know anything about modern manufacturing? There is no manufacturer who is willing to sit on sellable inventory for six or ten or 50 hours to wait for a component to break-in, if the customer can do just as good or better job of it. If you made 100 pairs of speakers a week and let them all break-in before you sold them, you could have tens of thoudsands of dollars just sitting there, eating electricity and producing no income. In addition, a manufacturer would need all the amplification and associated circuitry to run dozens of pairs of speakers simultaneously, which could amount to another few thousands of dollars that could never be captured in a sale. Now that concept, to my thinking (and anyone who builds speakers), is ridiculous.

Your overnight experiment is a joke, and proves nothing, other than your predetermined result that break-in can't possibly exist.

Do you know that a new car should not be driven at a constantly high speed for the first few hundred miles until the engine parts have smoothed themselves by wearing against each other? What is a speaker but a linear (hopefully) electric motor with moving parts and an elastomeric surround?

Of all stereo components, speakers require the most break-in time and will benefit the most from it.

Peace,
Tom E

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