31 Mar 09 Headphone Burn-in Power

Headphone Burn-in Power

One myth a lot of headphone users hold particularly dear is that of burn-in. The idea is that your headphones sound less than ideal straight out of the box. What you have to do is play 100-200 hours of music, which gets the headphones’ innards to loosen up.

The problem with this is that, while burn-in is a very widely held belief that isn’t limited to wholesale headphones, there really is no proof of its existence or nonexistence.

What we’re going to do, starting right this very second, is run a battery of audio tests on the drop ship headphones fresh out of the box, and then after getting burned in for at least 100 hours (we’ll note the total time the headphones were burned in; sometimes we’ll need to ship the headphones back before the 200 hour mark). We will be using different genres of music each time we do the burn-in, and we’ll try to get in multiple copies of the headphones so we can test with different genres of music to see if the effects are different.

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