Has burn-in changed your IE8? - Page 7

Originally Posted by Photofan1986

Are you certain you hav'nt got a fake one? My grilfriend has the CX300 Senn and it really sounds like...well, like its price! That is like crap compared to any other mid-range or high-end IEM.
Really strange that you find the sound of the CX300 better. That makes me think that you got a fake one :s

Originally Posted by vaqar

Authorized means from an official virgin store not from sennheiser itself... more over if u say n97 has the lowest quality then im not sure which phone actually has that quality. i cant carry a hifi system with my ie8's plugged in them sounds silly am i right??? my main issue is the mid bass which wants to flow but is somehow being blocked. i mean the power is there in overall bass but at certain points the bass does not figure out where its suppose to end up. resulting in muddy feel. i personally dont feel that burning them will do any good but still hope is there. the bottom line is that ie8 wants to strech its wings but there are no feather to make it look beautiful. regarding the cx300 thing what my poinion is that they are the best 30-40 dollar earphones till date that actually sound a lot like 150$ headphones and thats true all over if u agree to it or not. in compaison to the cx300II the ie8's should have been like mind blowing but thats not the case so far (After 30 hrs of usage). This is just a personal veiw that i experienced.

Originally Posted by vaqar

Then that means the ie8's are really not for mp3 palyer or cell phone experiences after all? you just use it with some already neat soundin hifi audio companent system ans thats it... surf a bit more u will finf people hating the iphone for its sound over the n97.
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Originally Posted by Gbjerke

And to the comment about "training your ears", that's all BS IMO. I wouldn't think that all of the uberfiers here spend hundreds of thousands of dollars on rigs just because they can hear a difference. And if the case is that you need trained ears, what's really the point, why don't we advice the newbies to buy some PX100s for all of them, no mater the budget, advice them to stay away from better audio til forever, so that they might not waste their money? Are you saying that i need trained ears to find differences in audio? I guess that could be partially right, but still if i can only find a difference between a certain quality, does that mean that I can't appreciate the quality that a high end headphone delivers? Or is it just the same? as its the ultimate for me? I think people going from earbuds to closed portables can still find a difference between their portables and somewhere between their former earbuds and portables(no im not hating on earbuds, talking about stok earbuds, as i have to watch out as one of these tiny little things can piss someone completely off, which is what i don't like about head-fi. It's a bit too formal. Sometimes i wish i could just tell someone to stfu.

Originally Posted by Zeo

Well I believe that it is a myth. It the bur in requirement was true, I think that sennheiser would do the burn in in the fabrication process. Who would be silly enough to selle a product with "oh btw, you need a 500H bur in to use it properly!".

the IE 8 Burn in issue is a psychological issue : they are not neutral, dynamic, with a strong coloration. No doubt ears need to adapt to a "new sound", and this take time.

Everytime I change my IEM it tooks me around 100/200 hours of listening to fully adapt.

I' not using IE8 anymore, but my wife do. Each time I try my wife's IE8, it sounds exactly the same. If I use them over a full week, my perception of the sound emitted by the IE8 starts to change.

They are very good IEM, but the 500 hours burn is unbelievable. And if it was, no doubt sennheiser would have done something about it.

the same as saying that after 50H, it comes close to PFE...It is a complete non sense...