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Ah, great way to start month of May with another new FOTM
what the hell does FOTM mean. makin up ur own abreviations
Ah, great way to start month of May with another new FOTM
Originally Posted by Gadget01 /img/forum/go_quote.gif but they have a break-in period and they are getting better and better.
My music file of choice is 320 bit-rate mp3
Bilavideo said:
I agree with both answers above and partly with the cynical dismissal crowd. If you have a diaphragm straight from the factory, there may well be something to the idea that the material is stiffer before it has been used for the first time and that a certain amount of use can loosen it up a little, enough to be noticed by nerds with notepads. Then again, the audio world is also soaking in hype and placebos.
Not all claims of burn-in have equal plausibility. Tell me that a stiff paper cone needs a little use to loosen up and I'm there. Expand that idea to tell me that I have to run so much juice through my wires to properly "burn them in," and I'm laughing till rootbeer comes out my nostrils.
If such a thing as burn-in occurs, most of it is psychological - but not because the burn-in believers are nuts. Far from it. Listening to music is not a purely objective experience. When I got my first pair of eyeglasses, I was surprised at how it took time for my brain to adjust. It was a reminder that perception isn't passive; it involves active participation on the part of the perceiver. An old friend of mine once went to a bluegrass festival. On day one, it all sounded the same; by day three, there was so much variety, she couldn't believe she'd ever missed it. We tune in.
You'd think that listening to music with better cans would make you such an elitist that you could never again enjoy the same music through a car radio. Ironically, that's not the case. After hearing music through my Grados, I found myself catching things - even though my car radio - that were there all along. I just needed to have it brought out. This kind of burn-in occurs with BA drivers, too, but it's more of a change in consciousness.
ClieOS said:
what the hell does FOTM mean. makin up ur own abreviations
(ph)one of the month. Like the current headphone that everyone is raving about right now. It's been around for a while now.
using these and Ety4p with iPod/Tomahawk/Portaphile combinations. So far, the Etys have a more crystalline sound with some better bass. Not "deeper" bass, but more well-defined bass. I now question if the bass is being more pronounced by the Ety and/or if the proper bass is being heard with the UM3X; in other words, how was the music SUPPOSED to sound vs. how it's being presented by the different IEMs. Neither is unpleasant, just different
Then too, Icontinue to play with eartips. quite tempted to buy Comply 100 since it fits both IEMs; haven't liked the Olive because Idon't get the isolation I'd prefer, and do like the Comply"P" because they seem to go deeper into the ear and make the bass blossom a bit more. Not a "bass-head" by any means, but if Miles Davis' group has some decent underlying basslines would like to hear them and not have them recessed which so far the UM3X seems to do