Conext
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I've got about 30 hours of burn-in so far. Basically, I've been letting them play overnight for about 10 hours, at pretty loud volume, then use them normally for an hour or two the next day to evaluate their sound.
After 30 hours, they're still pretty sibilant. Not as bad as day one. My baseline track that I'm using for comparison is Sheryl Crow's All I Wanna Do (16/44.1 FLAC rip from CD). On day one, even the "F"s sounded horribly, horribly sibilant. Not so any more. But, even using the EQ to cut frequencies over 6KHz, it's still pretty harsh.
And maybe its my imagination, but I could swear that as time goes on, I find myself backing off the volume slider. Still not as low as my 7550s, but lower than on day one.
I've seen burn-in cause miracles for sound quality before. I hope that does indeed turn out to be the case here. Otherwise, I'll be left with a pretty bad taste in my mouth, as far as the almost-four-figure IEM world is concerned.
After 30 hours, they're still pretty sibilant. Not as bad as day one. My baseline track that I'm using for comparison is Sheryl Crow's All I Wanna Do (16/44.1 FLAC rip from CD). On day one, even the "F"s sounded horribly, horribly sibilant. Not so any more. But, even using the EQ to cut frequencies over 6KHz, it's still pretty harsh.
And maybe its my imagination, but I could swear that as time goes on, I find myself backing off the volume slider. Still not as low as my 7550s, but lower than on day one.
I've seen burn-in cause miracles for sound quality before. I hope that does indeed turn out to be the case here. Otherwise, I'll be left with a pretty bad taste in my mouth, as far as the almost-four-figure IEM world is concerned.