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Quote: Originally Posted by fateicon I hate Sennheiser headphones. Even the HD800 with film scores. I think they're dull, dark, and seem to keep the sound inside the speaker/driver or whatever instead of pouring it in like a Grado. Me too. I feel exactly the same way, which is...

Quote: Originally Posted by fateicon Just got mine. I've listened to maybe a cumulative 90 min or so. The first time I put them on, I thought they were like a strangled RS-1 that made the bass standout more. Now I'm leaning more towards an RS-1 with metal cups, which basically has more...

Quote: Originally Posted by beerguy0 I haven't bothered to watch MTV in I can't even say how many years, but I watched a lot of it in the 80's. I first got cable TV around 1982 or so. It was great back then. I mean, they even played music videos! I had MTV T-shirts when a lot of people...

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Quote: Originally Posted by haloxt If I had the power I would ban you for sounding like Dr. Freud and repeating the same old argument that people tend to say burn-in is good. If you have so many psychological theories why don't you make one up for "why people don't say things wearing...

I went looking for a thread on "burn in" since the topic came up in a thread on the HF-2s. This one looks current so I guess I will post here. One of the mods in that thread has gone from saying the headphones sounded like absolute crap to completely amazing in just 60 hrs. of "burn in."...

Quote: Originally Posted by immtbiker @iggy-starnuts - Are you dense ? My statement about how it will sound is not a "crystal ball" review. It is from countless members that are enjoying them, whose opinions that I trust. I don't know any way to make it clearer than that. Perhaps you...

Quote: Originally Posted by HeadphoneAddict Can we stop the burn-in argument since this is the wrong place? BTW, my son's fresh HF-2 #120 sounded good out of the box with no hours, but they were not as good as my #24 with 300+ hours at the time. Out of the box there was a "bass...

Quote: Originally Posted by immtbiker Dude, chill out with the aggression. I stated what I hear, and with 32 years in the audio industry, I can say with absolute authority that the sound signature will change with some play time. I'm not sure how old you are, or what levels of...

Quote: Originally Posted by UglyJoe To be fair, biker was posting his expectation, not what has happened for him personally yet. As far as I know he still thinks they sound pretty crappy. If in a couple of weeks he drops in saying they have changed to become his favorite headphone, then...

Quote: Originally Posted by keyid I find bikers tale of burn in corresponds to my experience that they sounded better after some play time. So it's your experience that they sounded "absolutely awful" until 200-500 hours of burn in? Because that's how he described it.

Quote: Originally Posted by takezo i'd enjoy seeing you "challenge" the notion of burn-in... let's see it. i do enjoy empirical evidence. what sort of sample size are you thinking of employing? I didn't challenge the notion as much as say that I didn't think the effects could be...

Quote: Originally Posted by UglyJoe All that being said, I am skeptical of a headphone changing so much that you might go from hating it to loving it. The materials and construction itself doesn't change. They can only "soften". The overall characteristic sound shouldn't be a night and...

Quote: Originally Posted by immtbiker I do not want to turn this thread into an argument about burn in. It has been discussed to death and always turns into a lose-lose situation with 2 completely dedicated camps. So why'd you make such a big soapbox issue out of it then? I was...