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Does burn-in improve the sound of an in-ear headphone?

2018-09-09
hi everyone and welcome today I wanted to investigate quite a popular myth one that you can hear everywhere you can read about it in YouTube comments in forums even in professional reviews that the headphone in my case an in-ear headphone needs a break-in or burning period because the sound would improve afterwards many claim it's a huge improvement bass improves fairly improves it becomes more controlled everything becomes better while others don't hear that much difference therefore I wanted to try this out in practice if it's really true and ordered a brand new unit of the one more triple drive a lightning regime yeah I like it a lot once already my third unit the second one had slightly less rubber so I also wanted to see if there is some strong a sample variation and the first thing I did after unboxing was putting it inside this ears measurement system from mid ESP I tried to adjust them as good as possible and turn some measurements I also did some audio recording so we can compare it afterwards and I started the braking of burning procedure there is some own function in the one more app which is divided into two phases takes all together tooks takes two days I think place some random noises pink noise I also played music in between and I didn't touch anything for three days it was standing there doing its thing I only had to recharge my phone yes I can only play through lighting also the measurements were done through lightning port with pink noise so they are not as precise maybe but I don't have any lightning port with my computer so it's an Fourier analysis with pink noise and after the burning I did again the same with some measurements the same audio recording so we can compare them but first maybe let's check out the frequency response measurements so this is the left and right channel for this particular unit before breaking and you can see yeah there is some stronger difference in bass between left and right if I overlay my first unit you can see it also has stronger base so my hope was that after breaking or burning this would improve the difference between left and right would diminish or whatever so but firstly let's listen to the audio samples are recorded and use the smooth headphones sure I mean it's a headphone on your recording and I won't tell you which is which if a is before or after so we can discuss this again maybe later on I also provide the original recordings is in my video description uncompressed you can compare them by yourself is there some difference and tell me is a before or is B after running yeah I'm really curious to hear your opinion this but first let's have a listen and later on we'll discuss this is it just fantasy to me you are in my thoughts I never stray from we get the we can't be these and so I'm really curious to hear your opinion did you any difference which one was before which one after breaking yeah just tell me leave a comment but I can also show you the measurements after break-in you can see yeah there is hardly any difference there is some slight difference in the treble section but it can also be some measurement error maybe they moved out slightly it's enough that they move half a millimeter still I didn't touch it just moved it around a little bit so there could be some movement but you can see they measure all is the same so I didn't hear anything there is no difference the break-in a three days breaking of burning didn't change anything so sixty hours of playing pink noise loud music didn't change the sauna door and the difference in left and right it's still the same you could also see it has this unit has less bass than my first unit I over I would prefer the flatter tuning but this difference between left and right is quite annoying so there seems to be a huge sample variation with the triple driver three units and all three sounds really significantly different the second unit appeared slightly muffled to me like brilliance while this has really less space it's noticeable the first thing I tried them on and there was less bass compared to mine so yeah this whole braking burning blah blah seems just to me we can repeat the same maybe with an ovary a headphone and maybe I will let it play for one week not touching but then of course I cannot use this measurement system so you should maybe concentrate again on speakers but I would really want to see if there is some difference a problem with over ear headphones is that them Cashion's the ear pads yeah after I mean if they are worn for five days they will probably soften slightly and there may be some differences in the measurement but I mean an old headphone compared to a new one we'll also some different just because the pads are worn out so I'm not sure but we can repeat the same maybe with the IVA prodigy one is I have a replacement unit arriving soon so unbox it put it on make some measurements maybe everything life then we will do a live streaming for five days looking at the headphones but I have never experienced any kind of improvement with others if speakers headphones or whatever the only sound that changes is the sound of your head you get used to it just right try a random Madi headphone listen to it for I don't know some hours and then put up a clear one and the Cleavon suddenly appear really clear while the muddy before solid okay the ears are really easily to be fooled so they just get used to the sound and if you get some new speakers put them on suddenly you have the impression they improve but not really yes just get used to the Sun so in I think I could prove that burning the three days burning didn't change anything the Sun is still the same and I had a lot after two years yes they will break because they the cable will probably but there won't be any significant change in sound I would like to know yeah improve for the contrary if there is lately show me some measurements but in this case the difference is minimal or it's negligible it's just still for all those believers who think every headphone meets an amp and every headphone is a planning to improve yeah but why does it improve after happening why because that's the sound become better and not worse I mean if the drivers get worn it could be it could also become modest toilet like we've seen from the JBL extreme to something that was more distortion after the breaking so if the drivers loosen up or I don't know the sound could also worse and why does it always have to become better afterwards if you buy a new car it's great new and then it becomes worse it doesn't improve with driving therefore I'm still not quite sure about the strange mmm philosophy of many high-five enthusiasts yeah so this was it about the break-in burn burning myth of an Indian I think we confirmed or busted it from your opinion and we will do maybe the same for an over ear headphone in future so I hope you like this video thanks all for watching and see you in the next one bye you
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