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Just got a pair of sennheiser 201HD headphones about a week ago and I tell you, if there is anyone who likes to review headphones, please don't unless you…
give them substantial burn in time, if you don't you can possibly give a quality review. There's nothing more annoying than that. By the way mine sound great almost as good as my Bose on ear headphones.
It depends on what sort of review you want to do.
If you want to do a comparative review - i.e. how good something is in a relative sense, you need to own other headphones of differing capabilities (that you've had for a while for this purpose) to be able to establish relative opinions.
If you simply want an 'OMGthisisgreat' (non-)review, then yes - you should let your /ears/ 'burn in' to acclimatise to the sound of the phones.
Phones do not 'burn in', at least not in the often-quoted audiophile-bull**** sense - i.e. within a hundred hours or so. They do _degrade_ over time - due to moisture absorption from skin evaporation, airborne contaminants, foam degredation / wear & tear changing the ear-to-driver distance - etc, which does definitely affect the sound.
If you want to do a comparative review - i.e. how good something is in a relative sense, you need to own other headphones of differing capabilities (that you've had for a while for this purpose) to be able to establish relative opinions.
If you simply want an 'OMGthisisgreat' (non-)review, then yes - you should let your /ears/ 'burn in' to acclimatise to the sound of the phones.
Phones do not 'burn in', at least not in the often-quoted audiophile-bull**** sense - i.e. within a hundred hours or so. They do _degrade_ over time - due to moisture absorption from skin evaporation, airborne contaminants, foam degredation / wear & tear changing the ear-to-driver distance - etc, which does definitely affect the sound.
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