Some headphones may require lots of play time to perform at their best. "Burning in" refers to leaving music playing through the headphones for many hours so that they can be broken in and play at their best. Here is a longer explanation:

http://www.head-fi.org/forums/f4/he...burn-faq-56744/

And I agree, AKG headphones sound so "smooth" and yet also separate the sounds very well. I love mine for both production and regular listening. :-)

Fucking hell yea, burn in all dynamic headphones. Burn in basically is the process of letting the headphones play for anywhere from 100-300 hours from what I've read. Maybe I'm just insane but I noticed a big difference in my 7506's after letting them burn in for about 4 or 5 days. There is no actual proof for this but hell, it certainly won't hurt anything.

I've read some people use pure waves (sine for example) and others just use bass heavy music. I just used a playlist of a bunch of songs I really like, all trance. Also they were all at least 256kbps mp3, not sure if sound quality makes a difference but again, it certainly won't hurt anything.

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Yea burn them in. Best way to do it is just to use them for regular music listening, watching tv shows etc. My 240s took well over 10 or so hours to soften up completely.

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I've heard white noise is used a lot for breaking in headphones, mostly because that breaking in focuses on the upper register instead of the bass response, as I understand it

Though I never really bothered to break my K701's in, I listen to music constantly and I couldn't wait a week to use them after getting them anyway. I figure with all the listening I do they're bound to be as broken in as they can be at this point.

again...has anyone used headphones from ultrasone? im thinking of just taking a big risk and just getting a pair

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Originally posted by Sonic_c Lol dont worry about your spelling look at mine! +1 though mint headphones

they aRE GREAT.

ive only just started to use em for production.

i have monitors but i been using headphones a little bit.

i used em for djing.

and my beatmatching went up 20% HAHA

when theres not much outside noise i found any headphones could do but in a club it made it SO much easier..

i was using skullcandy before that HAHA pieces of SH**

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ok got my new headphones today.

Sony MDR7509hd

I'm liking the sound of them very clear and crystal.

just a question how loud should you have them to burn them in when listening.

Cheers

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Originally posted by Waza ok got my new headphones today. Sony MDR7509hd I'm liking the sound of them very clear and crystal. just a question how loud should you have them to burn them in when listening. Cheers

Congrats man, I know you're going to love them. Good choice.

I've never heard any as clear as them but do beware, as I said before it can be a little misleading becuase you hear details that don't represent on not so great monitors.

Personally, I wouldn't burn them in. Just use them as you would, the difference is not huge and by them time you really know them they'll be as burnt in as you ever need.

reason is rubbish. get yourself a copy of komplete6 and get very creative, there is no reason why you should not invest money on something you value, unless you want to sound like shit.

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Originally posted by winston reason is rubbish. get yourself a copy of komplete6 and get very creative, there is no reason why you should not invest money on something you value, unless you want to sound like shit.

Go be an idiot in the c0r. We already have more than enough in this forum.

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you could use ANY freeware on the web; it's not the means but the end result. (imo)

oh, and if you need good headphones get yourself a pair of seinheser[s].

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