Rip N' Burn
Headphoneus Supremus
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So if you had 2 pairs of the same iem, when the sound reaches your eardrums, would you be able to tell that they don't sound identical?
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Some do and some don't, yet they have had similar experiences.
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I had 'expectation bias' with my Triple.Fi's. I read that with 'burn-in' they would sound better, so I expected them to sound better. After the 'burn-in' they sounded the same. My expectation with the IE8 was that it could sound better or sound just the same. They didn't sound the same.
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The same could be said about your posts.
Originally Posted by Ed Seedhouse /img/forum/go_quote.gif Because it is extremely difficult and expensive to do. And even if the actual sound output by each IEM was identical it wouldn't be once it reached your eardrums, because your ear canals are not identical. |
So if you had 2 pairs of the same iem, when the sound reaches your eardrums, would you be able to tell that they don't sound identical?
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Originally Posted by Ed Seedhouse /img/forum/go_quote.gif The differences are easily measurable and of a magnitude that one would expect to be able to hear. On the other hand the results of "burn-in" (beyond a few seconds) are not measurable. Yet some here expect to hear that difference. |
Some do and some don't, yet they have had similar experiences.
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Originally Posted by Ed Seedhouse /img/forum/go_quote.gif It is only to be expected because people have been told in advance there is a difference and people (including me of course) are very suggestible. It is called "expectation bias". |
I had 'expectation bias' with my Triple.Fi's. I read that with 'burn-in' they would sound better, so I expected them to sound better. After the 'burn-in' they sounded the same. My expectation with the IE8 was that it could sound better or sound just the same. They didn't sound the same.
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Originally Posted by Ed Seedhouse /img/forum/go_quote.gif All I can say to that is that there are so many misconceptions in it I don't have time to cover them all. |
The same could be said about your posts.