[shortstuff]

Thank you for the pink noise!

 

[Rydell]

Anyone else cringing at how loud this gets? I had to turn it about 25% below normal listening volume and I can still hear it from the other room with fans going. 
 
EDIT: Couldn't take it anymore and turned it to half listening volume. Anyone here used the Logarithmic sine on their SZ2000's? 

 

[Beng Yeow]

Using this to burn in my Focal Utopia and Focal Listen

 

[m0rancharles]

All files have been professionally synthesized in stereo to the greatest of mathematical precision. There are no repeating parts, as found in a lot of so-called noise files today. They are 44.1kHz 16-bit stereo wav files. These contain rest periods of 30 seconds.

Logarithmic sine (Up from 30hz)
http://www.mediafire.com/?30ommiwwe1j

Arithmetic sine (Up from 30hz)
http://www.mediafire.com/?zxmwydmiwzj

Pink noise:
pink.zip

White noise:
white.zip

I'll take requests for certain waveforms or frequencies/sweeps at any time.
All in all, it depends on your taste. I recommend downloading the pink noise and logarithmic sine and putting them on a looping playlist.

*Request!*
Any chance you could resynth/master/create/post these files in 24(..or even the notorious 32??)-bit/192kHz? In the interest of truly breaking a headphone in, wouldn't it be key to have it exposed to all possible frequencies/harmonics of them from the get go, lest we inadvertently "break them in" to only those sounds/demands within a 16/44.1 file, thus further diminishing any added quality of that extra range? Pretty please?

 

[alex5908]

How much time for burning-in?

 

[Beng Yeow]

Really depends what your are burning in...

 

[Frazze]

Burning in my recently acquired AKG K702 atm. Will pick up a Chord Mojo later today from the post office, have high hopes on this one!

As for the effect of burn in, based on personal experience, I believe it differs depending on the brand. On some pairs I have not noticed any improvement in sound. On my old Beyers DT-831 however, there was an astonishing difference after burn in. When newly purchased they could not be driven directly from my 1st gen I-pod I had at the time. There was just some tinny noise and upper frequencies, quite faint, at full volume. A few years later I found the old player in a drawer and decided to try it again, with the same headphones, that had now been extensively used. The I-pod now played perfectly listenable full bodied music with the volume set at 50%. I am not saying that sine waves and pink noise made all the difference here, probably just a lot of music over the years. But for susceptible cans, why not speed up the process a little.

Cheers / Johan

 

[Jimster480]

Thanks alot for these!

 

[Toshu]

All files have been professionally synthesized in stereo to the greatest of mathematical precision. There are no repeating parts, as found in a lot of so-called noise files today. They are 44.1kHz 16-bit stereo wav files. These contain rest periods of 30 seconds.

Logarithmic sine (Up from 30hz)
http://www.mediafire.com/?30ommiwwe1j

Arithmetic sine (Up from 30hz)
http://www.mediafire.com/?zxmwydmiwzj

Pink noise:
pink.zip

White noise:
white.zip

I'll take requests for certain waveforms or frequencies/sweeps at any time.
All in all, it depends on your taste. I recommend downloading the pink noise and logarithmic sine and putting them on a looping playlist.

This is my first time doing this. I downloaded all 4 files, put them in a folder and am playing them in sequence in a loop. Is that OK??

 

[alex5908]

I am doing it the same way. Some people say we should burn-in for 200 hrs plus.

 

[dsl1]

Thanks so much for the files! Hope they help in trying to tame my HD800s.

 

[Gioacchino]

To burn in to meze 99c, what do you recommend and for how long?

 

[ChoColostrum]

Is this really effective? or just placebo? I mean I know the concept of burning in, but to use specific files is my question? I thought of just using the cans to whatever music/sound you can and will eventually loosen up.

 

[Toddy]

I know this thread is ancient… but the most recent one I could find.

I just used the ‘Audio Engineers Headphone burn-in HD‘ file from https://audioengineers.eu/burn-in-and-fine-tuning/ and can say I like my new Focal Elegia very much after burning them in (with the file and some music.)

 

[Ace Bee]

I know this thread is ancient… but the most recent one I could find.

I just used the ‘Audio Engineers Headphone burn-in HD‘ file from https://audioengineers.eu/burn-in-and-fine-tuning/ and can say I like my new Focal Elegia very much after burning them in (with the file and some music.)

Thank you, this is the only file I was able to download at my work PC. Putting it in loop with my UM 3DT.