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My quick impression of the SRH840: wow, these are one of the best closed headphones I've heard, and I've heard a lot of closed headphones! (See this thread: http://www.head-fi.org/forums/f4/how...me-end-235997/)
These headphones definitely improved with burn-in. I didn't like them initially and almost thought about re-selling them, but I shoved them into a makeshift acoustically-dampened container for 2 weeks of continuous burn-in (I did interrupt burn-in after the first week to briefly check how they were progressing). I finally pulled them out yesterday to start listening again and the difference is amazing. Burn-in really opened up the soundstage, and it also deepened the bass and helped refine the treble which was initially a bit messy.
These are really good headphones and I'm officially impressed (and not just any headphone impresses me these days). I bought these after seeing Iron_Dreamer's positive review on HeadphoneReviews.org (his opinion is one that I trust) and I definitely agree with his conclusion - this has to be one of the best <$200 closed headphones being sold right now.
More details to come at a later point in time. I will not answer any questions that anyone might have in response to this post, sorry.
(Disclaimer: I believe in burn-in only when it comes to dynamic headphone drivers. I also did not use "white noise" or "pink noise" to run the burn-in, but I did use my standard battery of electronica CDs for this purpose - Andrea Parker's Kiss My Arp, Future Sound of London's Dead Cities, Global Communication's 76:14, Laika's Good Looking Blues, Klute's Casual Bodies, Neotropic's Mr. Brubaker's Strawberry Alarm Clock, Orbital's In-Sides, Middle of Nowhere & The Altogether, The Crystal Method's Tweekend, The Prodigy's Fat of the Land, and the various-artist compilations Wipeout XL and Wipeout Pure. Source used for burn-in was the Arcam FMJ CD36 and amp was the HeadAmp Gilmore Lite.)
These headphones definitely improved with burn-in. I didn't like them initially and almost thought about re-selling them, but I shoved them into a makeshift acoustically-dampened container for 2 weeks of continuous burn-in (I did interrupt burn-in after the first week to briefly check how they were progressing). I finally pulled them out yesterday to start listening again and the difference is amazing. Burn-in really opened up the soundstage, and it also deepened the bass and helped refine the treble which was initially a bit messy.
These are really good headphones and I'm officially impressed (and not just any headphone impresses me these days). I bought these after seeing Iron_Dreamer's positive review on HeadphoneReviews.org (his opinion is one that I trust) and I definitely agree with his conclusion - this has to be one of the best <$200 closed headphones being sold right now.
More details to come at a later point in time. I will not answer any questions that anyone might have in response to this post, sorry.
(Disclaimer: I believe in burn-in only when it comes to dynamic headphone drivers. I also did not use "white noise" or "pink noise" to run the burn-in, but I did use my standard battery of electronica CDs for this purpose - Andrea Parker's Kiss My Arp, Future Sound of London's Dead Cities, Global Communication's 76:14, Laika's Good Looking Blues, Klute's Casual Bodies, Neotropic's Mr. Brubaker's Strawberry Alarm Clock, Orbital's In-Sides, Middle of Nowhere & The Altogether, The Crystal Method's Tweekend, The Prodigy's Fat of the Land, and the various-artist compilations Wipeout XL and Wipeout Pure. Source used for burn-in was the Arcam FMJ CD36 and amp was the HeadAmp Gilmore Lite.)