Driver breakin period, what’s the science?

A guy named Mike Samra, red sock green sock guy. Told me that teflon caps break in because of the DC, yet the speaker's VC would fry with it.. 

If it takes DC to break in a teflon cap, I still haven't figured how they breakin, in an XO, but they do. They sound bad (TRT) expensive caps too. Very harsh, highs will blister your ears, mids are veiled. They didn't effect the bass because there is no caps in a 6db first order low pass. But a bit boated because everything else was all out of whack and very thin. Thank goodness for Lpads and tone control.. It took 200 hours before my tone controls were back to flat, and Lpads at 11-12:00.

4 pairs all the same...  Years on a center speaker, because I don't use surround.. That one really cracked me up.. Any one need a LCR VMPS neo 8 planar center speaker. Just broke in after 13 years NOW... LOL

Some stuff does take a LOT of time.. just sayin'

Regards

Relative output of your driver's did not change more than a fraction of a db after the first few hours. The crossover points may have changed a very small amount. The l-pads and tone controls were not doing what you think they were.

All in a speaker changes with use, some faster and some not, mainly moving parts, followed by xover parts, cabling, binding posts.
They should sound good from day one but to reach full potential it takes some time.
Keep listening.

G

+1 audio2design! A voice of sanity among the inmates here! 

So many views. A confusing mess of heartfelt comments. Who knew it is soo complex. Everything is complex.   quantum physics is complex and so much not well understood. So driver breakin process is quantum physics. So most have no clue what’s going on.

I think making tea is easy. Maybe just a glass of water, no cubes.