Attempting to burn in my ultrasone HFI-450s with pink noise.

[JayNetTech5]

Will this work? i have it on my ipod touch running pink noise on an app. How long does this process take? I have it at a comfortable volume. Will it damage the headphones by any chance? its not very loud, it's at medium kinda. I am afraid the drivers are gonna get tired after a while. In addition, I have been listening to these since may 16th, so the process should be shorter since I started doing it after listening to them.

 

[JayNetTech5]

I hope it works out!

 

[davidgotsa]

Well, we (I) don't even know if burn-in is real, so my advice to you is: Just listen to the music you like while you're burning them in. 

 

[JayNetTech5]

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Well, we (I) don't even know if burn-in is real, so my advice to you is: Just listen to the music you like while you're burning them in. 

 
I personally think it's real, because you'd think that something new is stiff when you first get it. I know speakers work differently than say shoes or whatever, but I think that is something that's audible.

 

[BrownBear]

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Well, we (I) don't even know if burn-in is real, so my advice to you is: Just listen to the music you like while you're burning them in. 

+1. I've never had a headphone change its character from being burned in. Ever since the first few, I've just played my music through them and enjoyed them while 'burning in'. Just my experiences though.

 

[JayNetTech5]

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+1. I've never had a headphone change its character from being burned in. Ever since the first few, I've just played my music through them and enjoyed them while 'burning in'. Just my experiences though.

Maybe it depends on the headphone? Every phone is made differently, thus having drivers flexible or stiff from the beginning when first using them? Or how they manufactured it maybe?

 

[MaximumRoom]

If you want to break them in play something with a lot of bass at a high volume. But FYI, the amount of wear your cushions get has a greater impact on the sound than "break-in".