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There IS a question at the end of this.
I really thought the idea that you need to burn in new IEMs was......poop! An affectation or fetish with, perhaps, some placebo effect. Well, after being really disappointed with the muddy "there's a lot of flatulent bass and nothing else" out of the box sound of my Atrios, I decided to plug them into a radio and play the local modern rock station into them for three days. Son of a gun if they don't sound clearer. Maybe I'm just falling for a placebo effect myself, but I don't think so. I approached it with intense skepticism. I'm going to do the same thing to my Klipsch S4s now.
My question: can anyone speak to the specific principals of physics (or whatever) behind this phenomenon? I get the general idea that at first the drivers are stiff (or something?), but I'm really curious as to how burning these things in clears up the sound. Thank you for your kind professorial responses.
I really thought the idea that you need to burn in new IEMs was......poop! An affectation or fetish with, perhaps, some placebo effect. Well, after being really disappointed with the muddy "there's a lot of flatulent bass and nothing else" out of the box sound of my Atrios, I decided to plug them into a radio and play the local modern rock station into them for three days. Son of a gun if they don't sound clearer. Maybe I'm just falling for a placebo effect myself, but I don't think so. I approached it with intense skepticism. I'm going to do the same thing to my Klipsch S4s now.
My question: can anyone speak to the specific principals of physics (or whatever) behind this phenomenon? I get the general idea that at first the drivers are stiff (or something?), but I'm really curious as to how burning these things in clears up the sound. Thank you for your kind professorial responses.