Cool, i'll give them 100 hours of break-in. I'm gonna let them run all day while I'm at work to speed things up. I didn't get stands....yet. We are actually in the middle of furnishing that room so I'm not sure yet if I'll have the room for stands or not. Can you explain a little more about why stands would be better?
As far as impressions.....i just hooked them up last night. So far so good, but i only played with a dvd movie for about 5 minutes and that was it. I will experiment more today. So far so good. But i was VERY impressed with the packaging! I don't think i've ever bought anything that was packaged this safely. And each speaker comes in it's own box. When removing from the box you have to remove it from a plastic pouch. And then the best part...the speaker is in a purple velvet bag with a gold rope pull string! haha, very chic.
I will post back here as I listen and break them in.