roadcykler
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Why does burning in seem to result in better sound 99% of the time? (It's 100% of the time from what I've read but I wanted to allow some room for a difference).
Why does burning in seem to result in better sound 99% of the time? (It's 100% of the time from what I've read but I wanted to allow some room for a difference).
Because people expect it to improve
I don't understanddynamic driver and mybrain at all.
The only things that burn in are things that move (i.e. speakers and headphones). There's a really good post on here somewhere (that I can't find any more) where the response of a brand new headphone is compared to the response after some burn in. IIRC the bass response improves a bit, but the difference is rather small (as in, probably not easy to hear at all).
The rest is psychological.
Expectation is surely a part of the equation, but if it'd be the only part, well then we probably wouldn't have one person claim to hear burn-in on device X and not on device Y.
Since the effect can't be measured, it might very well be magical properties of some materials
Logically speaking this is incorrect. The problem is human hearing is not reliable. The same person might hear something one time but miss it five minutes later. It's also common for people to report a change in sound quality even when nothing changed. This is the real issue. This article was written for mixing engineers, but it surely applies here: