yomomma1
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Sorry, I know it's a double type post but I can't help it if someone is mentioning brown noise
Can the drivers in headphones be worn out in the long run? Does burning-in really shorten the life-span of headphones?
I think the website burninwavegen.com is completely gone. Or is that software the exact same software as the cnet download one? the burninwave generator 0.9 version?
I then asked if there is a recommended a burn-in period for the ie800 IEMs that I just ordered and am awaiting a reply.
Rollin
Nice tip I remember seeing in a number of threads. Get the pink noise track (from a site like binkster.net), use any audio tool to setup a single track, just over an hour long, consisting of:
- 20 minutes pink noise
- 2 minutes silence
- 20 minutes pink noise
- 2 minutes silence
- 20 minutes pink noise
- 2 minutes silence
Save it as a single track and either burn in to CD (if that is your source); use the raw WAV file or encode to FLAC if the PC is your source. Put on the track and leave it on repeat.
Apparently the drivers and other components can get quite hot so continuous pink noise for hours on end may not be ideal, so the 2 minutes silence in between gives a little bit of a respite.
Hmm, by the way, ALSA (the newer de-facto sound system of Linux) has a tool called 'speaker-test' which generates pink noise for free, without any looping flacs.
I'm gonna do some 'speaker-test -l 0' tonight, thanks for the tip.
play -n synth 20:00 pinknoise pad 0 2:00 repeat X
play "|sox -n -p synth 20:00 pinknoise pad 0 2:00" "|sox -n -p synth 1:00 sine 10-20000 pad 0 1 repeat Y" repeat X
-r 96000