I get the feeling that you are going to be a future inquisitor. I’ll rat out other heretics to you, just don’t take my headphones.
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What bagwell says is true though. if burn in isnt real how come so many makers and companies tell you to do it? I talked to Zack from ZMF, the first thing he said is his headphones require burn in. like 100 or 200 hours of burn in. these guys really know what their doing. they say we need to burn them in. Zeos believes it too.
oooh i would love that. 
@M0N we need those nickname’s or status messages in the forum.
I’ll reserve Audio Inquisitor. 
Not going to lie, titles next to names would be cool
This was already discussed. You can sort of do it by changing your name(not username) on your account settings and it looks like a title
Aye got my new Profile Pic lol
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Simple answer…the companies tell you to do it so you roll past your return window. Kind of obvious if you ask me.
I dont care who believes it and who doesn’t. As long as people are happy with their gear, that’s all that matters. But the overreaction to something sounding bad to suddenly becoming end game is laughable. If I burn in my ipod earbuds, they arent going to become Campfire Andromedas.
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maybe this can help some
The first noble truth in buddhism: “In life, there is suffering, because of the impermanent nature of things”
the other aspect in physics… no energy gets lost
the moment something is moving it will change 
The first NT is that suffering exists (that it’s a mark of existence), there is no “because etc.” there. The second NT is about the causality, how things follow from eachother, and specifically that suffering/unsatisfactoriness arises from a series of things, among which a mark of existence called impermanence (anicca) plus clinging/attachment to impermanent things. So it’s not just “because of the impermanence”, or it would have no solution, and Buddhism would be useless. It’s because of impermanence + clinging to things, and we can solve it if we stop clinging. 
So if you painstakingly “burn in” your headphones with 100 hours of frequency sweeps and the sound doesn’t change, that’s fine. And if it changes by a lot, that’s also fine. Don’t cling to the expectation that it should change, and don’t cling to the expectation that it should not change, and you will avoid suffering. 
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So to sum it up, just use it as normal and see what happens lol
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I’m not sure 230 posts were needed just to end it there but oh well
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You would gain more FPS if they were red. 
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To avoid suffering, I recommend staying away from the M50x. 
By the way, the best burn in you can do is to connect a pair of M50X onto an emotiva a-100 basx with the jumpers installed while singing the roof is on fire. 
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Burning in? Well, according to how I use my IEMs and Headphones I must say that at some point I do believe in it but most of the time I cannot even bother do a so called process that’s called burning in. I mean this is just me, new headphones, put it on my head and plug it to my phone or PC to listen to music until it gets better bit by bit as I keep listening with the new headphones I have.
my burn in methodology involves listening to music and letting them get better over time as they’re used. 
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I sometimes use lighter fluid when my kerosene isnt available.
someone should see what kind of success they can have with a ‘not a flame thrower’ from Tesla.
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Wrong! Just the other day I burned my ipod earbugs along with a Yankees cap, and said 3 incantations, and viola! Got an Andromeda - with all the extras!
I have to say that the mids have a certain deep smokiness, and the highs are a bit crispy…
For me issues in the treble are worst, so when my Stanton 881S, MG-1, Dyna VI, ML CLS, etc. along the years came out of the box edgy and nasty, that made them difficult to start. So happens that the Dyna VI and the CLS are basically legends, so them going to near SOTA sound shouldn’t be an issue. One thing I always like about Koetsu - they always come out sounding great.
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