That's not how sound works. Think of a vibrating object. If it stops vibrating suddenly, slowly moving it to its center point isn't going to make the absence of vibration any less jarring.
Indeed. I think that's what I'm trying to describe in my sibling comment to yours.
However, what it will successfully avoid is the loudspeaker driver attempting to instantaneously snap from some nonzero x-position back to it's origin, which is what causes the really nasty clicks.
