Quick change of tact folks. I am a real live noob here yes but i have been an avid HiFi follower for many years, usually DIYing my amplifiers with an emphasis on tubes and currently have a quad KT88 scratch build underway. I have just moved into the realm of HD Music and after years of CD listening have begun buying a few albums here and there, (usually HDTracks) .flac 24/192 which i play off my MacbookPro using Fidelia through a FiiO E09 and E17. for headphones or a simple desktop active amp from SO-VOIOE. I even have a very recently purchased FiiO X5 to 'get my head used to decent portable sound'. I've even backed the Kickstarter for Pono so hence my project of finding some good cans...
I've now come to love the convenience on offer accessing extremely good quality material compared to the old approach of having a CD and CD player or the pointless hours i spent ripping them in iTunes for my iPhone or iPad as 320MP3s where i never did like the actual quality of the music... hence the shift into HD... I'm still out on 16bit/44.1 being so bad but i do say i hear my favourite music better if it's a 24/192 encode etc...
So i've begun a search for headphones and my preference lead me to the K712s that were just too far out of my budget on the day but i met the Q701s and they sounded just as well which lead me to Amazon's recent excellent offer so i now have a set (in black). Of course i have tried the K812s on the day but not yet on my gear and was stunned and that's another story... My Q701s were ok out of the box but i detected a feeling of restraint for all frequencies as if they are not responsive enough and rather than allow myself to 'compensate' i have decided to do a burn-in... after I've spent a few hours here reading the pros and cons of it for the Q701s and i need to ask if this approach is going to be any good:
PINK noise track (1:03 repeating with 2 second break) 24/192 .flac fromDr Chesky's Ultimate Headphone Demo Disc
Played down using MacBook Fidelia > USB FiiO E09 headphone amp with E17 DAP > Q701s, the amp set to fairly high volume.
So far it's been running for around only 72hrs none stop, 3 days and nights. I know it will take 100s of hours according to the info i have gleaned from here but is my setup any good? I know i should invest i a proper audio frequency oscillator/generator but for now is there any chance i might be wrecking something?... so, anyway, thanks in advance.
Pete.