What's up with "burning in" headphones

Don't worry about pointing your headphones towards eachother and playing white-noise at carefully calculated dB levels and whatnot. All you really gotta' do to properly break in headphones is to play them continuously for a few hours when you are doing other things (overnight while sleeping works great) playing bassy music. This will accelerate the break-in. Or you can just let it naturally happen with use over time...it really don't mattah'!

DJ's shouldn't have a problem finding bass-heavy music to play through headphones ;)
 
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ahh bass tracks: here's a good one! BT-Fibonacci Sequence
all of that math involved! :victory:
 
i disagree that it can be any "bassy" music.

in order for the headphones/speakers to be properly broken in under all frequencies you must use white or pink noise, the best representation of all frequencies at the same levels. it's common sense.

and yes, if you wan the nifty cancellation effect, they must be out of phase.
 
They don't need to strictly break-in at all frequencies. They simply need to operate normally, although heavier-than-normal operation works better.

I mean, come on...you don't need to subject a car to all driving conditions at once when breaking it in or whatever. You just need to drive it, althogh many people will drive it a bit harder to break it in better.

Check out Head-Fi about it. The issue comes up about once a week, it's been beaten to death, and they have a lot of good posts discussing the issue. Some are kinda' crazy about break-in, making special break-in CD's and what-not...others just say it don't matter much.

Really, whether or not you believe break-in will change the sound is up to your judgement, but it does happen...either by making it happen at an accelerated pace or just letting it happen by itself. Either way, the "settled" sound is not going to be too different.
 
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