Kevin.T
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For the record, I believe in burn-in and go through the process with my gear (when it is new of course). But I also believe in the human psychology, which can be very powerful over our perception of senses. Please, allow me to play the devil's advocate before a "nonbeliever" comes in:
A reason why people don't experience burn-in with used phones would be that they don't EXPECT it. They already have a preconceived idea that the phone is already burnt-in, so the mind accepts that the sound will not change (which would explain why a lot of phones are often sold soon after being received by people claiming they just don't like the sound sig). However, with a new phone, if someone doesn't like the sound out of the box, they resort to the idea that it needs burn-in, so the mind expects a sound change. Psychology being what it is, this expectation is so strong that it makes people hear a change in sound after the burn-in process, even when there's not.
Originally Posted by spinali /img/forum/go_quote.gif Re: all this talk about "psychological burn-in": I've not read any accounts of headphone users who have experienced break-in with used phones. Why is it that people seem to experience break-in only after buying new phones? Might break-in be more than simply psychological? |
For the record, I believe in burn-in and go through the process with my gear (when it is new of course). But I also believe in the human psychology, which can be very powerful over our perception of senses. Please, allow me to play the devil's advocate before a "nonbeliever" comes in:
A reason why people don't experience burn-in with used phones would be that they don't EXPECT it. They already have a preconceived idea that the phone is already burnt-in, so the mind accepts that the sound will not change (which would explain why a lot of phones are often sold soon after being received by people claiming they just don't like the sound sig). However, with a new phone, if someone doesn't like the sound out of the box, they resort to the idea that it needs burn-in, so the mind expects a sound change. Psychology being what it is, this expectation is so strong that it makes people hear a change in sound after the burn-in process, even when there's not.