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Well I never got used to the harshness (treble-wise) after a thousand hours of burn in-it was the other frequencies that improved. Oh and there's no scientific proof for brain burn in-suck it haters!
-Daniel
Then I'll definitely need to find an amp that causes some serious high roll-off, unless the mids actually "improve" enough so that I can stop having to turn up the volume loud enough to make dialogue actually listenable--
this really causes highs to physically hurt my ears. I have zero issues with the bass though. I actually enjoy it quite a bit, it's just that the highs make these not very nice to listen to at "adequate" listening levels for me. I'm also hesistant on opening them up and adding felt or whatever. It may tone down the highs, but people are saying it also affects everything else as well, and not necessarily in a good way.
It really depends on the game, but usually most games don't have enough dialogue to where the mids on these would be a negative, and you don't need to turn them up as loud so that the highs would hurt your ears. So far for games, these are pretty nice, but the headphones I was after were for movies
and games, and so far they aren't even any better than what I had been using as a whole. The bass is incredible for action movies, yet I can barely hear anyone speaking clearly unless I turn it up--and then the highs just kill me. It's not even the tone either, that doesn't bother me. It's that they are simply just that loud and piercing. Honestly, I have no idea what Ultrasone was thinking--were these made for people with less than average hearing?
You also talk about them being sensitive to positioning. Ok, sure--somewhat. The extent on which it matters though in all honesty is irrelevant. To get a major shift you have to actually shove the headphones backwards in such a way that it's pressing hard against the front of your ears so that the drivers are closer (a lot closer to center). This causes the highs to get super high, and the mids are also a lot more audible. The reverse of this happens when you shove them forward so that they are pressing the back of your ears forward. Problem is, you get neither scenario happening when you simply wear them normally, and no discenible effect really happens with slight adjustments. Maybe if your ears are super small, but mine are average.