Sure, the break-in period is really there, no doubt about it with my speakers (although quite old now, but I do remember quite vividly) and with all other speakers I have seen from out-of-the-box condition at places of friends and family.
However, from posts above (especially venkat's and odyssey's) it seems you got to do it in some specific ways. May be you do. I know some special CDs are available for breaking in CD players (and perhaps also amps) with continuous playing.
What I have always done with whatever I have bought (including any cables), I just use the equipments as usual, be that couple of hours of running every day or whatever at the normal volumes. Obviously the performance is not always great before the break-in. But I wait and things settle eventually. Is there anything wrong doing it this way? I guess not, but one may have to wait longer with certain equipments than the speacialised methods suggested above.
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