Headphone Heights

Posted by Duster (A) on November 20, 2017 at 18:46:35

In Reply to: RE: HD 800 break in posted by claud on November 18, 2017 at 05:37:52

IME, typical wire/cable burn-in tends to be 150 hours for most notable improvements, while mechanical break-in of a transducer is most likely driver dependent. A nice thing about headphones is a set of cans can be buried in a blanket or between two pillows while a burn-in track is played as a loop, at any volume level that won't put too much strain on the driver suspensions, or create too much heat via the voice coils. Otherwise, it tends to take just about as long to become familiar with the sonic signature of a make/model pair of headphones as it does for them to be affected by the first phase of meaningful burn-in/break-in, so patience may be a virtue in this case. YMMV