Today there is a huge selection of high end headphones including Sennheiser's models hd 600,hd650 and hd 800. As well there are high end headphones from Bose, AKG, Denon, Grado and Sony. All of the high end headphones sound rather distinct, and the question of breaking in always rises generally when someone is thinking of getting high end headphone but has not yet experienced the sound quality.
Please do not be worried the headphone break in period is a norm, and many experienced users will tell you this up front.
I would like add another possible reason for the burn in period, it has to do more with our brains and our ears. When you start listening, the plastic cones inside the headphones vibrate and send the sound to your ears where it is received and transmitted to the brain. Your brain is the sorter of information it processes sounds and assigns emotions, pictures and anticipations to them. When the sound comes out it is received by our brain, the brain then uses this sound as an input to build a linear perception which we call music . This is all done unconsciously with an absolutely astonishing speed , and the reason you never notice is because it has being a part of you since birth and you're just used to it.
The explanation for burn in period may be as follows. The sound is a tiny bit different from your new headphones and that makes input into your brain different as well. Although a little but different should not be a problem, for the brain a little different is completely not the same. Your asking your mind to build music ( pictures, feelings, anticipations) into your conscious mind with a completely different input. Simply the brain can't do a perfect job just because the reference ( the sound from the headphones) is not the same. This is the reason why you ( the consciousness) claims that the music does not sound good, yet in reality your unconscious mind simply does understand the input and cannot build music into conscious mind so that you enjoy and receive pleasant feelings.
How then the break period can be explained ?
Well on the demand of you the conscious brain pushes the unconscious mind to try to reassign its references to the new sound. It is done between the conscious and the unconscious mind without you noticing. The mind goes through a process, which involves the unconscious mind sending ( feelings, pictures, anticipations) to the conscious while the conscious denies or accepts the particular feeling, picture or anticipation which we call music. Once this process plays over a few hundred thousand times, your new headphone will sound much better.
Guess why?
Well you have just reassigned the old sound (reference) from your old headphones, to the new sound from your new headphones. Definitely you'll confirm that the new headphones are much better, since your unconscious has completely reorganized the input (sound) to output (music) for the new headphones.
This is why the high end headphones need a break in period, they are that good. Please note that there are a lot of brands including Bose, AKG, Denon, SONY, Grado and Sennheiser. Please check out this Sennheiser hd650 review.
Please do not be worried the headphone break in period is a norm, and many experienced users will tell you this up front.
I would like add another possible reason for the burn in period, it has to do more with our brains and our ears. When you start listening, the plastic cones inside the headphones vibrate and send the sound to your ears where it is received and transmitted to the brain. Your brain is the sorter of information it processes sounds and assigns emotions, pictures and anticipations to them. When the sound comes out it is received by our brain, the brain then uses this sound as an input to build a linear perception which we call music . This is all done unconsciously with an absolutely astonishing speed , and the reason you never notice is because it has being a part of you since birth and you're just used to it.
The explanation for burn in period may be as follows. The sound is a tiny bit different from your new headphones and that makes input into your brain different as well. Although a little but different should not be a problem, for the brain a little different is completely not the same. Your asking your mind to build music ( pictures, feelings, anticipations) into your conscious mind with a completely different input. Simply the brain can't do a perfect job just because the reference ( the sound from the headphones) is not the same. This is the reason why you ( the consciousness) claims that the music does not sound good, yet in reality your unconscious mind simply does understand the input and cannot build music into conscious mind so that you enjoy and receive pleasant feelings.
How then the break period can be explained ?
Well on the demand of you the conscious brain pushes the unconscious mind to try to reassign its references to the new sound. It is done between the conscious and the unconscious mind without you noticing. The mind goes through a process, which involves the unconscious mind sending ( feelings, pictures, anticipations) to the conscious while the conscious denies or accepts the particular feeling, picture or anticipation which we call music. Once this process plays over a few hundred thousand times, your new headphone will sound much better.
Guess why?
Well you have just reassigned the old sound (reference) from your old headphones, to the new sound from your new headphones. Definitely you'll confirm that the new headphones are much better, since your unconscious has completely reorganized the input (sound) to output (music) for the new headphones.
This is why the high end headphones need a break in period, they are that good. Please note that there are a lot of brands including Bose, AKG, Denon, SONY, Grado and Sennheiser. Please check out this Sennheiser hd650 review.
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Hi, here is a link to the review of HD 650 headphones by Sennheiser ___hd650___.. Also published at Is there a break in period for headphones? Or your mind is playing tricks on you?.
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