How to burn in headphones?

[RAZRr1275]

How do you guys do it?

[Blzer]

Re: How to burn in headphones?

What is "burning in"? Do you mean kind of like a car where you don't gun it at 100MPH with a brand new engine?

I guess you just moderately let it play things softly until, well, they break in.

[RAZRr1275]

Re: How to burn in headphones?

What is "burning in"? Do you mean kind of like a car where you don't gun it at 100MPH with a brand new engine?

I guess you just moderately let it play things softly until, well, they break in.

From my understanding it's similar. The headphones that I just got apparently sound different from when they're out of the box and after about 20-40 hrs of use or after they burn in.

[Blzer]

Re: How to burn in headphones?

I never would have figured that to be the case. Good looking out then, I'll make sure to consider that when I invest in some $100+ headphones (that'll be the day).

[RAZRr1275]

Re: How to burn in headphones?

I never would have figured that to be the case. Good looking out then, I'll make sure to consider that when I invest in some $100+ headphones (that'll be the day).

If you are looking for some good headphones cheap watch amazon.com around the holidays. I got my Sennheiser hd448s for 65 bucks (over half off) from there around black friday

[Tribe1]

Re: How to burn in headphones?

The way I was told to break mine in was to hook them up to a source that could be on for 24 hours and tuned to FM radio but not on a station that you receive just one that is all static or white noise

[Burns11]

Re: How to burn in headphones?

IMO it doesn't seem to make much difference what you play through them, just hook them up to a source and play anything at reasonable volume. If you want to get technical you should probably play pink noise since it's flat, but I've done pink noise and just set a player on random and haven't seen a difference. Oh, and unless you want to hear it, I typically put them under a pillow (or at least I did before I set up my listening room).