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very true. but how does that make it a good design. it seems to me that if a speaker takes that many hours to sound like it should that it is basically a crappy  design

Look at the converse, we compromised the sonics of the speaker to avoid breakin. So, you have a speaker that doesn't sound as good. This is a highly competitive businesses. So you compromise the sound to say our speaker has less breakin required. Design is all about constraints. 

what the hell are you talking about?

haha!  
 

Are they getting any better or still not happy with them?

Really don’t see a difference after 250 hours on them. Again, I’m not listening to them for that 250 hours, so perhaps my brain has not adjusted to them under the guise that the speakers are ’breaking in’.

Maybe I need my head to listen to them for 250 hours to ’break-in’ my brain, or i could hit my head on a wall for listening to these ’used car salesmen’ that sell speakers in perfectly tuned rooms and electronics and tell you that your equipment is very similar. Oh, and the no return policy....but a 1-week trade in policy of 50%.