Yeah I don't know why so many people don't believe in burn in. I did a Google search on it the other day and many of the top results had tons of people trying to play it off as some psychological effect. The cheap Sennheisers and my current earbuds needed burn in before they sounded their best...

Thank you both for responding. I kept telling myself that most of the reviews I've read are based primarily on the reviewer's opinion, but I'm so used to reading hardware reviews on other things where there are major physical differences, or obvious flaws that can be pointed out visually, or...

Until a year and a half ago I had never listened to music with anything other than the cheapest earbuds I could find. I decided on a whim to try something else, so I checked Amazon and found a pair of headphones that I could easily purchase without even making a dent in my bank account. I knew...