The Truth About Burning In Headphones
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- Опубліковано 10 лис 2020
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I believe in "psychological burn-in". I've experienced this myself multiple times. Not loving a headphone on first listen and gradually becoming more and more accustomed to it, leading to me enjoying it more. I do not believe in physical driver burn-in.
I’m hoping this happens with my new dj cans. I feel like they have minimal bass.
@@jmoak311 it will
@@jmoak311 just got new buds, terrible high freq especially cymbals sound as pinching crap, everything else is fantastic great quality
I'm hoping with time, the harshness with the highs with my new headphones, will get smoother.
multiple manufacturers literally state to burn in headphones, Hifiman, Abyss, etc.. Hifiman recommends 150 hours. Abyss has talked about upwards of hundreds of hours in their videos. Audeze burns in headphones before shipping them, at least 24 hours or more at high volumes
I noticed difference in burn in. I even brought IT Back tO the store to compare. Since at the store the demo model only have few hours of usage.
If you blow up a balloon, a fresh one, it is more difficult. Blow up a balloon 30 times and it's easy. The diaphragm breaks in slightly overtime, and is not as stiff. To my experience, this improves sound quality. After a year it has been noticeable compared to a new pair I bought, and I still use my old ones because of this.
I must say you summarise the issues very well indeed. My own experience is in the general field of high end audio and the idea that mechanical devices like speakers, headphones and cartridges benefit from break-in is very often cited. Whilst I agree this is controversial it is nothing compared to the claims of interconnect and speaker manufacturers who often insist on their cables being ‘burned in’. In fact, to deny the existence of this phenomena (personally, I have never heard any evidence for it) is to ostracise yourself from many audiophile discussions regarding cables!
Bought a pair of HD560s’ and really loved them but the high end was a bit grating after about 150ish hours of burn in the highs are noticeably less sharp and the low end is more pronounced without a doubt
Burning is real thing! If you want to check listen to the used earphones and then listen to the new earphones of same model,you will know the difference
Yep. Tested today with my Soundcore Life Note new model vs the used ones.
Simple theory is to loose the component inside the drivers of your headset. It is just like a new car breaking in. The best way to know the fact, is to test your headset before and after burning in using white noise in 50% audio volume at least 72 hours...
Because cars and headphones are the same thing.
@@michaell.8938 there's more than just cars and headphones that work like this. Guns, shoes, mattresses, jeans, any oven or toaster, razors all these require breaking in
@@michaell.8938 Car engines and Cones speakers and surrounds all have 1 thing in common, they are mechanical moving parts while they are not the same thing the comparison makes sense and checks out
Are you going to do a review for the new Beoplay H95 Bluetooth headphones 🎧?
Solid information audio46
The thing is, the hifiman sundara's user manual tells you to burn in the headphones for 150 hours. Why don't they do that for you if it's actually important for their product?
Nice video. I found it very informative, thank you. I just ordered my first real set of headphones -Sennheiser HD 58X, and cant wait til they get here and in a couple headphone reviews they mentioned burn-in so I did a search on it on UA-cam and here I am :).
did you burn in your headphones and found a difference?
My earphones sounds better after using it for 1 day. I got my new earphones yesterday and the moment I tested it, I honestly regretted buying it. I thought that I shouldn't have bought this new one because my old earphones definitely sounds better. But today, that regret is no more because my new earphones sounds better today than it did yesterday. And no, it's not just in my head because because there's no way I'll mistake the sound of a song I've listened to a hundred times. And also, I used my old earphones as a reference to compare how it sounds yesterday and today.
Measure it objectively. Your beliefs means nothing.
@@MisterRhulJust like your existence means nothing
I bought monitor earbuds in China for €50 and was initially very disappointed. The low frequency range between 20 and 100 Hz was weak, so I always had to turn up these frequencies on the EQ. Now after 6 weeks of listening to music, I noticed that the bass is really pumping now and I actually don't have to make any changes to the EQ. Since I also use other headphones and had the comparison all the time, I can confirm that I'm not imagining it. In addition,I only found out about this "burn in" today by chance when I read the instructions for my kz zs10 pro for the first time. There is a recommendation that I should better do a burn in before using it for the first time.I suggest just to ignore that because this will happen from time to time by itself.
Beste grüße!
same for my kz zsn pro x haha. at first i was disappointed at its harsh treble. a month later, now it is not as harsh. could be my ears or true burn in.
Once I broke the cable on my Beyerdynamic cans. I replaced the cable and then they sound just as harsh as I remembered when they were new.
So was the cable that actually get burn-in?
Interesting...I haven't looked into how the cable might be affected by burn in. May be worth researching
From a material science standpoint that doesn’t make sense. The currents in the cable would have to change the crystalline structure of the metal in the cable, and that’s not the case. You need between 250°C and 750°C to anneal metals, depending on the alloy. There is no way to “burn in” audio cables. It’s a placebo effect.
@@albedoshader thanks for this!
@@albedoshader I don't think it's fair to claim it's placebo - you don't have enough information to say that with any sort of certainty. The new cable very well may be adding a harsh quality, but this new variable could be different from what made the headphones harsh in the first place.
@@thatyoutubechannel9953
I would make a slight correction to what I said and rather say that it’s a case of nocebo effect, not a placebo effect.
Apart from that, I have all the information I need to make that claim because the only way to change the electrical properties of the cable (“burn-in”) would be to anneal it. And for annealing you need to heat up the metal of the cable to at least 250°C, and up to 750°C, depending on the metal and properties you want to create.
No sound signal you send through it can change the crystalline structure of metal. So, “burning in” can be discarded as an explanation.
Changing the cable doesn’t add a “harsh quality” in any regard.
The question was specifically if this perception of “as harsh as I remembered when they were new” could be because of “burn-in” of the cable. And that simply doesn’t make any physical sense.
The placebo effect (or rather the nocebo effect in this case) is the most reasonable explanation because “I remember it sounding much harsher in the beginning long ago” is a very poor metric.
First reason: memory is very unreliable. You don’t actually remember how exactly something sounded months or years ago.
Second reason: habituation would be already a good explanation why @Allan Sh thinks the headphones sounded harsher in the beginning. Hearing adapts to new surroundings or frequency responses over time, and if he had different headphones before, his Beyerdynamics might have actually sounded harsher than the previous ones. But after a while the perception fades. Auditory habituation is a natural and well-known phenomenon.
And here comes the nocebo effect into play: The expectation that something is not going to work already changes the perception of things. It’s even a prominent effect that appears in the medical field: Not believing in the effectiveness of a drug reduces the (perceived) effect of the drug.
The placebo effect is the opposite: Expecting a substance to work already causes an effect, even if the pills or drug you take don’t contain any pharmacologically effective substance. See homeopathy.
Audio placebo effect: I believe gold plated plugs make stuff sound better. I bought gold plated plugs, and ever since I used them the music sounds much more “open”, “smooth”, and “natural”.
Reality: It still sounds the same.
Audio nocebo effect: I believe the expensive audio cable I had made everything sound better. I had to replace the audio cable with a new one, and ever since I have the new cable everything sounds “narrower”, “harsh”, “digital”, and “artificial”.
Reality: it still sounds the same.
The only reason why I learned about burn in becouse i bought headphones and that made me download a app and i saw a section ware it says burn in and i clicked and man i regret it because my headphones sound exploded.
What if actually both things happen? As your ears start to get used to the new headphones you just bought. Your headphones also burn in.
I thought I would skip burn in but now that I know more about it, I am going to burn my new headphones in for 14 years and 3 months. On second thought, I'm half deaf to high sounds which is why I wear hearing aids which have their own software. I haven't yet found any articles or videos on wearing headphones with hearing aids but let me tell you, when you have an app that can adjust sound quality and equalizer for your ear before you touch any controls on your headphone app, you end up with amazing versatility and great sound.
I don't really know to wether burn in my trn mt1 or not 🤔 I'm afraid it'll break when I burn it in or it won't last long, same thing goes to not burning it in it'll probably not last long if i dont burn it in so.....
Been trying to find out if I need to burn in my wife's new AKG's but some say to do it, and some say not to. Both sides are passionate too, so it makes it even more difficult to figure out
I don't know what "burn in" is, until i bought 2 headphone from Marshall the sound was suck not like Sony, it gave me BASS out of the box and i tried my second headphone from Marshall it sound like you listen to AM/FM but my old Marshall one sound a lot better. Why is that? I tried to think it was my head too before. Maybe i used to it if i don't have same the headphone (same model) to compared.
Older headphones indeed sound more pleasant.
multiple manufacturers literally state to burn in headphones, Hifiman, Abyss, etc.. Hifiman recommends 150 hours. Abyss has talked about upwards of hundreds of hours in their videos. Audeze burns in headphones before shipping them, at least 24 hours or more at high volumes
I burned in my Beyerdynamic‘s after I found them rather harsh in the highs. After just about 7 hours of playing rather Bass Heavy and Dynamic Music they really did sound more “comfortable”
990 same !
Yea, I turned in my 770's for repair after using them for a good couple months with a 10-20hz bass booster. After they got back from repair I noticed (even with the sub-bass booster) that the highs where significantly harsher than the last time I used them. This led me to believe I did not regain the exact model I sent in for repair and yes they confirmed that they gave me in fact a new pair. Since im not an audiophile and even have a hearing dissorder I think its fair to estimate that the sound signature can change quite a bit over time, otherwise I wouldn't have noticed. Especially in the highs.
After burning them for 5 hours I feel comfortable wearing them for hours on end where I couldn't when they just got back.
Just got rid of my 770s. White noise was played in them every night for 8 months and it was still a sibilant mess, trying burn in on my k371 right now.
Does anyone know the song name? Background music
My opinion after using many different headphones and earphones over the years (no pun) is that burn-in is real. All it does is relieve stress points that are unintentionally but inevitably created during the manufacturing process. It doesn't follow that once the stress points have been relieved further use of the headphone/earphone will cause it to deteriorate and fall apart - quite the opposite - as stress has been relieved there's less chance of catastrophic failure. Pink noise is advised as it gently reduces stress - loud rock music will also relieve stress but not gently and could cause a failure before the stress has been relieved. Scientists may not be able to measure the burn-in effect with digital instruments but humans hear in analog.
How about cables? Like pure copper or pure silver? Do they change the sound?
Against all statements that "cables don't affect the sound signature" I can tell that I hear a significant difference. Some time ago I was testing Fiio FH5s + their optional LC-RC cable. While stock cable was made with silver coated copper, the second one was pure monocrystaline Cu. I don't know if You're familiar with this model but from the start it was a little criticized about their higher frequencies - they were a bit too sparkly for some. I can agree with that - FH5s are a specific pair of IEMs for a specific kinds of music and I can tell that. In some songs they were just brilliant while switching on the other album made them just unbearable.
When I decided to switch the cable I immediately spotted the change. Copper in cables tends to form sound in a more relaxed way, it tames the highs and adds a little warm to the bass section and that's what happened in this case. That's how Fiio improved FH5s to Pro version - just by a cable change. I spotted the bigger change when I plugged it into standard FH5 and man, that was a HUGE difference! It was like turning on the gain on the portable player - everything became louder while being wider, spacious and clear... So, yeah - it does affect the sound.
In case on the other type which You have mentioned, pure silver cables are flatening the signature but not in the way You may think: they are just lowering the higher pitches in frequencies. For example Fiio's LC-D series balanced cables (I know, I'm a fan) were just perfect for my last IEMs FH3 which became less boomy and more analitical.
I tend to be a self-called audiofile because I surely can spot the quirks and details in certain headphones/earphones but I can somewhat tell that after some time with music the signature does slightly change - maybe not entirely but in some sections it does (in my experience, the higher frequencies). So I usually put my new preys just for a night or two with a normal, relaxing level of volume to stretch them up and prepare for what will come next. Doing this way I never broke any of them and after the process I knew that they reached their fullest (?) potential which will serve me well during use.
@@flameaddicted thanks for this great explaination. I really appreciate it!
You convinced me. Very good overall argument coupled with some marketing paradigms I'm aware of. I'm convinced it's not a thing.
I've just bought new earbuds and they come with an app that plays pink noise on an increasing level for 400 hours in order to burn them in. Now I'm no expert on the subject BUT if there is such a thing as 'burn in' wouldn't it just happen naturally over time as you use them? Is it really necessary to play pink noise for 400 hours before you can get optimal performance? I bought them to listen to music NOT pink noise and if they require that to achieve optimal performance then it should be done at the factory not require the user to finish off the manufacturing process!!! The drivers in earbuds are tiny so I refuse to believe playing 400 hours of pink noise to improve performance is anything but utter BS!!!
Burn in makes it sound more pleasant you can do it but it's not really something you need to know
You don't need to use white noises or burn in CDs, you can just listen to it and it will also work
Just bought something from the store great experience. Glad to see you guys are logical too lol
maybe "burn in" just corrects some anormallies that might have gotten in the way of the build and construction is the process of manufacturing.
So instead of doing a burn in,would your headphones not start to sound better after many hours of normal intermittent use?
yea, but burn in speeds that up
Headphone burn in is real
mmm ... burnt in sounds better than second hand for resale.
Obviously 78 hours of pink noise isn't going to do much at all, but in my experience with m50x that I've used over 500+ hours of mixing and listening to music vs a bunch of brand new m50x it's very noticeable. My worn up m50x sound so much more flat in the top end meanwhile all the new ones sounded like you had a comb filter in the high end and a very pronounced v shape with a very bright high shelf. And I remember that when I changed my headphones from a m20x to my m50x I noticed that the latter were insanely bright. Another thing that I can atribute it's that humans sweat a lot, and as disgusting as it sounds all the salt in your sweat ends up in your drivers making them sound smoother.
Cap
They didnt tell me not to let the black smoke out of these headphones.. I put dubstep drops at 135 DB to burn it in faster and it let the smoke out. now they don't work
...Smoke?
There's no smoke in speakers... what did you let out and what did you burn?!
bro literally burned his headphone
I personally experienced the difference myself so i would say burn in does affect the sound quality.. Almost 3 years ago i bought a bluetooth speaker Sony SRS XB12 green color.. at the first impression i was surprised that it didn't sound as good as i expected for a $60 speaker. Then i burn it for a couple days by playing some random & mostly EDM musics and then, boom i start to notice a slight difference already on the sound quality as the separation between ranges/instrument getting better, and the bass was getting more accurate.. i wanted to buy 2 of them as it can be paired each other to make it a stereo speaker.
And then a few days ago i bought the exact same model of the speaker in a blue color as now i finally have 2 of them.. But guess what, i hate to hear how it sounds out of the box as it sounds a bit harsh and brighter with some slight of inaccurate bass 😂 i even compared it next to my old one and yess my old one sounds much warmer and softer with better separation compared to the new one.. and now i gotta be patient burning my new one for dayss at least 😪. I've been noticing a lot of difference/changes after burn in process on my IEMs and Speakers, so i dont get when people say its a myth.. or probably they just dont have the sensitive ears to hear the slight difference of sound quality..
Headphones do not need exercise in a form of burning in. Manufacturers design headphones with the best sound possible after unboxing.. at least that would I do if I'm the sound engineer and designer..
I will say burn in is subjectively real. This is coming from not even know that term existed and only found out it was a thing when my Truthear zeros(which I do not like at all) sound suddenly changed out of the blue, I can't tell what changed I just know the sound profile had been altered. Which then prompted my to research if anyone else experience this phenomenon. Then, and only then did I find out about "burn in". But up u till that point in life, I've never had a headphone/in ear suddenly change sound like that. It's almost as if some shook loose or needed some stretching before it operated properly. I still think it sound aweful, but the sound, none the less changed.
Burn in is real. I bought a very cheap pear of headphones (20$). After 2 years of using my headphones every day for at leat 2 h with heavy bass music, now they sound like an professional pear of headphones. I bought skullcandy crusher Evo and my cheap headphones have better bass and better vocals😂😂. I tried so many headphones and no one can beat my super cheap headphones 😂.
@@thatmandaniel it is a joke, laugh
that's some nice grass, back there
Bro i have noticed a change in bass.. After burn in Now bass is more relaxed and soft.. before i listen to it. first time it sounds very hard. before burn in.
If you bought a new headphone and run a headphone test especially the binaural test, and it sounded great, no burn in is required, otherwise please burn in. It works, trust me. Of course don't bother with 10 bucks headphone, they suck and will never improve on the sound.
In some headphones or earphones burn in does work
I have a old pair of head phones which I burned in and a new version of the same headphones and my old ones sound better and they are literally the same headphones. My old headphones look old and ugly so I can’t take them out but the burn in thing is real. I overnighted thoes old headphones on some UA-cam headphone burn in pink noise thing and didn’t really hear a difference till years later and it’s real. I have no idea what’s going on here but my new headphones should sound better then my old ones or at least sound the same.
What you are forgetting is that all manufactured parts are made with a degree of error and this error will increase with use. The more you use the greater the measurement error. This is fact. Whether the error is favourable or even noticeable is a different matter.
can 5g change sound quality???
Nope. Digital medium does not change depending on transport form.
good question!
@@Samlaren thanks for the answer!
Only on flat earths
@@greedokenobi3855 😂😂
the only thing is that..... If you really wanna wanted to make change or feel the difference at ground level then you have to be use a different variety of "DAC" and Audio files format or codec......... Now these days everyone using digital sound format those are basically based on dot matrix 0 & 1 but sounds are not matrix, sound is a wave..... try to use Analog sound format (like old days school vinyl records, VCD, or cassette player) Just pick up the one and only the most favorite audio files of yours........ experience this with different varieties of DAC, DAC & AMP, multiple types of driver like..... speakers, headsets, headphones, IEMs with different types of technology like...... singal or multi channel driver,....... like dynamic driver, balanced armature driver, Electrostatic drive, planar magnetic driver, piezoelectric driver, bone conductor driver...........................................................
Hopefully I can get my audeze MM 500 lots of burn in time! They will sound like LCD 5 and also my Arya stealth mabey they will sound close to the Susvara 🤣 prob not but hopefully they be much better headphones
burn in exist but it take a really long time(5 years of normal use)
This is a very informative video. The backround music is distraction though and I found it annoying. I didn't see any need for slightly muffled music in the backround that would be more suitable for a 1970s elevator. Other than that, I got what I needed which was information about what Burn in is. Thank you. Also, you make an erroneous assumption more than once. You think that if you effect the earphones with burn in in such a short time it would be "evidence of a defect" and also "they would keep degrading quickly over time." Neither of these assertions is necessarily correct. Certain materials break in but don't continue to degrade at a fast pace. An example would be breaking in a new engine in your car. If it kept "breaking in" continuously, your engine would not last 100,000 miles. Breaking in a pair of new jeans does not mean you will be almost bare ass naked in 3 months of wearing them.
This topic of whether burn is real or not, is the equivalent to the topic of whether God exists or not.
Hardly. You can touch, see and hear components of your headphones. No faith and prayer needed. 😇 You're an angel
I always burn in my headphones for +-5000 hours
While i listen to music
Has video on headphone sound. Yells into mic for 8 minutes.
This thing is more about people getting used to their gear over time.
I got my blon bl03 today 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
Perfect sense, most neutral, but most right it seems. My first experience with really good pro headphones (K77 Perception) which I bought 8 years ago rather strongly proves that break in is just maximum a quarter effective, but mostly psychological.
9 or 10 years ago I bought some probably fake cheap Beats by DrDre headphones, which first didn't sound as professional as I even expected to sound a really professional set of headphones.
Still, they seemed to sound pretty great, especially because of the inflated bass, details being just enough to appear professional enough.
But after 1 or 2 years, they have broken, the plastic simply snapped without doing any sudden or strong move.
So, I had to buy new headphones and I opted for AKG K77 Perception, which surely proved to me genuine, even now the headband still not getting broken despite being torn apart at both ends.
So, maybe that DrDre headphones weren't fake, buying them from the same audio store from where I bought the K77.
Anyways, I got used with the ultra hyped ultra artificial ultra stinky poor bass from that cheap Beats headphones, but I didn't realize until the first or second year of using K77.
At the beginning K77 seemed extremely poor on bass, but actually it was mostly the way I edited the songs on Audacity with the Beats, lol.
Years later I've found an old folder with such songs edited in Audacity with the help of the Beats.
That songs were shockingly lacking of bass, clearly that sh!tty cheap (but probably genuine) Beats were overinflating the bass very much, lol.
And, 2-3 years after I bought the K77, I started to hear the bass properly, quite pretty rich but not inflated at all, very nice detailed bass, finally a really great set of pro headphones.
So, it was like the burning in lasted for too long, lol. Clearly it was purely psychological.
So, it was just a problem of perception, multiplied by the overinflating of the cheap Beats headphones and also by wrongly editing the songs in Audacity because of the cheap Beats.
Damn, so much writing for so little "having to say".
SO, A HUGE CONCLUSION FROM THIS EXPERIENCE OF MINE: Start first with a set of headphones which might appear lacking of bass, but which has very detailed enough bass, to say so.
I didn't had this luck first, but I had it since second time.
AKG K77 Perception or K99 are a great very cheap set of headphones to start with, there still are on sale on some sites, I don't think they're any fake or chinese sets out there.
Burn in of most headphones make no sense at all, it's just a marketing gimmick if they come with an app to do so. Headphones ESPECIALLY buds, don't rely on a thick piece of rubber that needs to get more flexible.
Buds typically, have extremely small plastic membrane drivers with a very thin diaphragm and it's quite easy to damage such drivers without proper care. Everyone saying burn-in did something to their buds or headphones (some headphones it does matter, but most people can't afford such headphones), is either lying or their brain is adjusted to the sound or the brain is lying to them. Audiophiles have proven many times, that the burn in of buds and most headphones is due to other factors and not the driver improving (in headphones it's usually the pads getting adjusted to the size of your heads, which does improve low end because they are more isolated that way, but the driver still is the same).
I do this with underwear, burn in period. It's a real thing. I run down to Taco bell and load up.
There’s also a method when u pee at ur headphone after it dry is sounds great.
These audiophile do everything stupid and they always think it works.
Named 1 piece (coil) and just one part of another piece (diaphragm) that not really important in that topic. Yeah, listen more to these guys and look stupid auguring with electroacoustic specialists.
Disruption of the air....sorry idk what he says next -but it was enough for me.
How can you compare your hp after burn in for let’s say 50 hours or so to the original ..?? No you can not, unless you buy two new ones at the same time and only burn in one hp. Honestly, I don’t think those people exist. In the end it is all about what you want to believe ..._
I agree it would be very hard to test out without a control pair because our auditory memory is short! It's nearly impossible to recall differences that small from memory alone
in the end it's all about physics and science. We just don't have all the tools to measure burn in rn, that dosen't mean that things are not changing just because you cannot see it happening.
Look at the Masters that make speakers more reliable that way no?
I’ve burned in half dozen headsets. No difference at all
Pink Floyd.... The best pink noise ever invented!!;
Of COURSE it does not exist, it's just you (your ears) getting used to the sound.
It's the biggest hoax in history. Notice how how the sound always get better somehow?
There's are people talking about wire burning in too, it's hilarious!
I heard one talking how he was looking for a "darker" sounding cable hahahaha.
A whole lot of placebo..
Yeah, it is placebo. But cables (connected to analogue equipment) do make different sounds. In this case there are measurements.
I am inclined to agree!
it is very simple to test if it is a hoax imo. pick a normal person that haven't listen to those specific headphones. then there are two headphones, one has like 100 hours burned and the other is completely new. he/she will tell immediately if they sound different or not. imo the burned in could sound slightly better due to the membrane be more flexible after continuous movement for so many hours. but this is just my opinion.
@@rafael6693 have you seen the video from Tyll? His experiment was very similar! I wonder if an average person who doesn't pay much attention to audio would be able to hear as much of a difference as someone who is constantly trying to decipher differences between headphones
tell that to DT1990 Pro owners. Those cans sound extremely sibilent without 100+ hr burn-in. That burn-in difference is actually measurable by a few dB.
I don't think ur seeing the right angle with what burn-in is bud! I had a pair of wireless earbuds that was "recommended" burn-in in the manual! Of course it said u can naturally burn any oair of ear phones in by just frequently listening to em but what it was saying is that when they put em together at the factory that they just tend to be a little stiff and until the had around like 20 hrs of play time they would still be stiff but after so many hours everything just kinda lossens up and relaxes out to produce more precise lows and highs but just that it was to be suspected that until they had been in use for a lil while they might not be a good as they will be after some random frequency play time! Kinda like when u buy a new car u cant expect PEAK performance until its had the chance to cut and relax the eternals into itselfs! That just how I see it anyway! Kinda like a woman... At first shes all tight and she gets warmed up she starts to relax and get lubed up a lil bit as time progresses then before u know it u find and get in a groove and then the actual fun REALLY STARTS! LOL
Burn in doesn't exist, change my mind
Just like audiophiles think $5,000 cables sound better than $50.00 cables. Audiophiles are a very superstitious bunch.
Thanks you successfully wasted my 8 minutes
Bla bla bla
all headphones are shit. even £1000 ones compare to those u used for 5+ years every day :)
there is only one headphones that was perfect out of the box that was making anyone ears happy straight away
its an open design Senheiser px100 first generation.
theyre were sounding like 3k headphones. and all for 80 bucks :(
I got my 1st pair of headphones a couple of months ago and on the App, there is a feature called "Smart burn-in", so I decided to try it out, even though I did not know what it was. The sounds used were: square wave, sine wave, pink noise and white noise.
Sometime after I had initiated this function, I saw written that it would take 12hrs to do so, and I thought it was a long time but decided to go for it. Then I realised that was only the 1st phase and there would be 4 in total, with the 3rd one being the longest: 70 f**# hours! However, as I had already started, I decided to finish and on the last day of 2023, it was finally over, after 2 months of purchase and over 150 hrs burning them in. In the end, I would be lying if I said that I see any difference. 😅🙄
So many hours (and some sleep hours) wasted!!! 😤