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Funny how that works huh biggrin.gif

 

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Edited by MuppetFace - 1/25/12 at 11:59pm
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lol Skyrim.....

 

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to piggyback on MuppetFace
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Yeah, I figured. Too late though tongue.gif

 

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If I was ever going to replace my avatar, it would be with this. Brilliant!

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Win.
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too bad burn in is one of the few true myths.

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I mean is how paradoxical it is.

I've seen people suggest burn in for:

A. More bass (if a headphone is lacking in bass)

B. Less bass (if a headphone has too much bass)

Or

A. Brings out treble (if a headphone sounds veiled)

B. Mellows out the treble (if a headphone sounds too sharp)

How can something correct issues for every headphone? So "Burn In" is a sentient being that knows when to add, and when to take away?

I should start adding negative burn in... where you WANT to keep your cans from burning in to not add/take away bass or treble.

Definitely not believing that contradicting myth. I believe that a headphone might change during the first few hours (like breaking in any electronic), but I believe this 'burning in' is more or less just us getting used to a headphone's sound...
Edited by Mad Lust Envy - 1/27/12 at 12:54am
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I was glad to see Tyll's well written article on the subject, which basically states that even if burn in does exist (and there's no conclusive evidence to whether it does or doesn't) the effects of it would not be as pronounced as people seem to think.

 

This whole business of headphones having more bass or less bass after burn in is, to me, merely wish fulfillment. Funny how burn in always seems to make headphones sound better and not worse, for instance. It always seems to fulfill the desires of the person who owns them. Seems to me that as that person lives with them long enough, the threshold of acceptability is lowered or perhaps the person's ears acclimatize to the sound.

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I was glad to see Tyll's well written article on the subject, which basically states that even if burn in does exist (and there's no conclusive evidence to whether it does or doesn't) the effects of it would not be as pronounced as people seem to think.

 

This whole business of headphones having more bass or less bass after burn in is, to me, merely wish fulfillment. Funny how burn in always seems to make headphones sound better and not worse, for instance. It always seems to fulfill the desires of the person who owns them. Seems to me that as that person lives with them long enough, the threshold of acceptability is lowered or perhaps the person's ears acclimatize to the sound.



I had a very similar line of thought, until I witnessed the process of my magnum drivers burning in. The magnum drivers change quite a bit. 

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I had a very similar line of thought, until I witnessed the process of my magnum drivers burning in. The magnum drivers change quite a bit. 



Out of curiosity, has Tyll ever listened to or measured magnum Grados?

 

*goes off to search InnerFidelity*

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And always for the better, right? I've owned more headphones than I care to admit, and the only ones I felt had any real change was the M50 within the first hour, which had a very obvious metallic sizzle that just disappeared. Other than that, all the headphones I owned as well as burned in, sounded pretty much exactly the same as when I opened the box and put them on, issues or not. I call BS.
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I think it's safe to say that most claims of burn in is a case of mental burn in. I'm a fence sitter as far as burn in is concerned but my opinion is a headphone shouldn't need 100 plus hours to reach maximum audio quality if anything the first few hours should be more then enough. As for users always recommending burn in as a solution I've found enough users seem to parrot a lot of the same solutions every thread you go. When I was on the DT1350 thread one user was constantly on there telling people the DT1350 needed a very powerful amp in order to hear more bass which was as far from the truth as you could possibly get. I like to refer to it as the Parroting Complex. One guy reads a few articles and he's all over the place parroting what he's read as a solution for every kind of problem in the book. I think people mean well but sometimes a little healthy cynicism and the practice of being silent when someone can't be absolutely sure about a point of view would be far more helpful in the long run


Edited by DigitalFreak - 1/27/12 at 1:36am
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