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In Reply to: RE: Just out of curiosity posted by FenderLover on October 24, 2018 at 16:40:41
I just finished the break-in. I did not by any means dislike what the headphones sounded like prior to break-in.
After 4 days of nearly nonstop break-in, there is a subtle improvement. I listen almost exclusively to classical music. What I noticed that on a couple of rather muddy recorded orchestral excerpts from older Chandos recordings, I can now pick out individual instrumental lines better. Bass remains solid and taut: My test selection for bass is the last part of the Saturn movement from The Planets (Dutoit)--an organ pedal comes in on a very low note and then climbs the scale--the note was clearly defined, and the volume level remained equal as the pedal line rose, and there was no audible distortion or nonmusical rattling going on. I know what a live pipe organ sounds like, and this was clear as could be.
My first pair of good headphones was the AKG K702, which I still own and use mostly for watching TV late at night. Now, the AKG had dramatically better (deeper) bass after 100 or so hours of break-in. In contrast, the degree of change in the Focals after break-in was much smaller.
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