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.
hiendmmoe
Here’s a progress report on my speakers break-in process. I’m happy to report after 100hrs ( XLO burn in disc track 9 ) things have improved. They’re starting to open up, driver integration is better and sounding much fuller. They still need more hrs on them but things are starting sound very good.
hiendmmoe
Hello,
Kenjit, Can you explain why a mechanical object breaking in cannot be measured. A woofer gets better excursion over time. It levels out at a point, but definitely changes. Since the driver is just a motor moving air to make sound the more efficient the motor becomes the more nuanced sound it can create. This is most notable at low volumes after the break in period. The same thing happens to a car engine. It actually gets better gas mileage after 5000 miles than it did at mile 100. If I am wrong please explain your comment so I can be educated. 
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, 
@hshifi.    better excursion over time and similar statement is the legend.   hoax
@hshifi 

Whether it can be measured is not the issue. The question is how significant is it if its audible? There are many more problems that can ruin the sound of a speaker and people that focus on things like cables and break in of drivers dont realize that. How about custom tuning the speakers with a bit of equalization? How about retuning the crossover? I tend to agree with what Harbeth wrote.

If you dont like what youre hearing its very unlikely that break in has anything to do with it. Has the OP bothered to retune the crossover to see how that sounds? If not, why not?