brendon
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Look, just burn-in your earphones with whatever you wish. There are plenty of people who are believers in burn-in and plenty of skeptics.
I personally would not recommend pink noise. I suggest you just play music you listen to normally at slightly higher volumes. Just do this when you sleep for about a week (8x7 = 56 hours) should be sufficient. I dont subscribe to the 1000+ hours burn-in requirement. I believe 95% (if not more) of the burn-in happens within the first 10 hours or so.
That said I burn't in my Hippo VBs for 50 hours (with pink noise) and I found them as bad and as sibilant as the day I got them (i.e. there was hardly any change). Then I burned them in using normal music for 100 hours and now the sibilance has been tamed by leaps and bounds. I guess I have just gotten used to the sibilance ? I doubt it as I still cringe whenever I hear sibilance in my home speakers.
Anyways my point is that most earphones/headphones burn-in in 10 - 15 hours. However some take longer time to burn-in.
This is one the biggest reasons why I believe in burn-in. If burn-in was indeed purely a placebo effect then there would be completely random recommendations on the amount of time required to burn-in a particular earphone/IEM. However most people recommend barely 50 hours for a HD650 but you will see people recommending 100 hours and more for an AKG K701.
I personally would not recommend pink noise. I suggest you just play music you listen to normally at slightly higher volumes. Just do this when you sleep for about a week (8x7 = 56 hours) should be sufficient. I dont subscribe to the 1000+ hours burn-in requirement. I believe 95% (if not more) of the burn-in happens within the first 10 hours or so.
That said I burn't in my Hippo VBs for 50 hours (with pink noise) and I found them as bad and as sibilant as the day I got them (i.e. there was hardly any change). Then I burned them in using normal music for 100 hours and now the sibilance has been tamed by leaps and bounds. I guess I have just gotten used to the sibilance ? I doubt it as I still cringe whenever I hear sibilance in my home speakers.
Anyways my point is that most earphones/headphones burn-in in 10 - 15 hours. However some take longer time to burn-in.
This is one the biggest reasons why I believe in burn-in. If burn-in was indeed purely a placebo effect then there would be completely random recommendations on the amount of time required to burn-in a particular earphone/IEM. However most people recommend barely 50 hours for a HD650 but you will see people recommending 100 hours and more for an AKG K701.