Headphone Burn in

PostHeadphone Burn in by **Denster** » Thu Sep 24, 2009 8:10 am

I came across this phrase while buying my beautiful new earphones. Apparently they sound better after having been played for a while. Does any one know anything about this?

PostRe: Headphone Burn in by **Fatal Exception** » Thu Sep 24, 2009 9:40 am

Sounds like a load of old bollocks to me.

PostRe: Headphone Burn in by **frogg** » Thu Sep 24, 2009 10:01 am

Fatal Exception wrote:Sounds like a load of old bollocks to me.

EDIT. after doing some research after Akai's post, it is real. Likened to breaking in a new pair of shoes. I suppose it does make sense after all :fp:

I'm in 3rd year of an Audio Tech. course as well :shifty:

PostRe: Headphone Burn in by **Akai XIII** » Thu Sep 24, 2009 10:01 am

Is true.

When I bought my Grados they told me about this... After using them for a few days they certainly sounded better than when I first got them.

Plus a friend is a audio-freak, he says 'Is true'. So, is true.

PostRe: Headphone Burn in by **Denster** » Thu Sep 24, 2009 11:02 am

Splendid. They reckon about twenty hours for these to really start to fly.

So saturday morning. Leave em playing all day.

Lovely stuff.

I will review them as best i can next week for anyone that gives a hoot.

PostRe: Headphone Burn in by **Nibble** » Thu Sep 24, 2009 11:09 am

Same thing applies to loudspeakers.

PostRe: Headphone Burn in by **Denster** » Thu Sep 24, 2009 11:20 am

That's what I love about this forum. There is a bloody vast well of knowledge on a myriad of topics. Thanks chaps.

PostRe: Headphone Burn in by **Lenty** » Thu Sep 24, 2009 12:15 pm

Burning them in with a variety of noise rather than just music works best. This is because the noise goes across the frequency spectrum and power distribution spectrum. Personally I use a variety of Pink Noise (Pink noise works mainly across the spectrum where most human hearing occurs, it's often used as a reference signal because of that) and Brown Noise (Brown noise works really well because it is basically a random walk so covers the spectrum well again) when I'm burning new headphones or speakers in. I upload the .wav file that I use here: http://www.megaupload.com/?d=WQR8U9H0. If you want to use that then dl that and just leave it on a loop for however many hours. Unless you've got a good ear I don't know if you'll notice too much of an improvement from burning in earphones, but it does help.

PostRe: Headphone Burn in by **Denster** » Thu Oct 15, 2009 8:39 am

I can confirm that this is true. They just get better and better.

And thanks Lenty!
:wub:

Incredible piece of kit.

Just incredible!

PostRe: Headphone Burn in by **Dual** » Thu Oct 15, 2009 9:28 am

Yo Denster what headphones you packing mayne?

PostRe: Headphone Burn in by **satriales** » Thu Oct 15, 2009 1:32 pm

It happens with TVs too, after a few days the picture seems to get a lot better.

PostRe: Headphone Burn in by **abcd** » Thu Oct 15, 2009 4:53 pm

It happens with online porn too, after a few days the picture seems to get a lot better.

PostRe: Headphone Burn in by **Antwon** » Thu Oct 15, 2009 5:13 pm

It happens with meme's too, after a few days they gooseberry fool on your external drive thru.

PostRe: Headphone Burn in by **Denster** » Thu Oct 15, 2009 10:57 pm

Kagamine Rin wrote:Yo Denster what headphones you packing mayne?

Sennheisser IE8's

PostRe: Headphone Burn in by **~Earl Grey~** » Fri Oct 16, 2009 12:21 am

It makes sense to me. Any inherent stiffness in the materials at the points where they're required to move would be loosened away.

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