Hi Everyone .. this is my first post on HiFi WigWam. I couldn't find where to sign in to the What Hi*Fi forum yesterday and discovered (via a Google link to this forum) that it no longer exists (can't think why though).
My first 'quality' headphones were a pair of Sennheiser HD250 Linear which I bought when they were new in the range, to replace my previous Koss Pro4AA (ahh, the memories!). Fairly recently one of the capsules had ceased to function and a repair was not possible. However, through a spares company that no longer deals with Sennheiser, I was able to buy a couple of new capsules and ear pads, together with a new 3m cable & adapter jack plug from their stock. I put everything together, clipped them onto the original headband and put the new Frankenstein pair thus formed away for a rainy day, as a spare. 'Spare' because, in the interim, I'd purchased (on eBay) a pair of HD250 Linear II phones in excellent condition, which I've been using to my huge satisfaction for nearly six months now.
Something I remember a hi-fi specialist telling me a few years ago, when he re-coned my Heybrook speakers, about 'running in' speakers for up to 100 hours before they really start to sound sweet, made me think that if I ever need to put my spare headphones into use, perhaps I ought to do the same thing with them. Consequently, I've been playing a UB40 'Best Of' CD (nice and bass heavy you see) on random/repeat at a middling volume for a couple of days solid, in the belief that this will 'limber up' the diaphragms so that they won't sound so tight and new whenever I come to use them.
Is there any basis in fact for the idea that 'running in' speaker cones and headphone diaphragms will improve the way they sound?
My first 'quality' headphones were a pair of Sennheiser HD250 Linear which I bought when they were new in the range, to replace my previous Koss Pro4AA (ahh, the memories!). Fairly recently one of the capsules had ceased to function and a repair was not possible. However, through a spares company that no longer deals with Sennheiser, I was able to buy a couple of new capsules and ear pads, together with a new 3m cable & adapter jack plug from their stock. I put everything together, clipped them onto the original headband and put the new Frankenstein pair thus formed away for a rainy day, as a spare. 'Spare' because, in the interim, I'd purchased (on eBay) a pair of HD250 Linear II phones in excellent condition, which I've been using to my huge satisfaction for nearly six months now.
Something I remember a hi-fi specialist telling me a few years ago, when he re-coned my Heybrook speakers, about 'running in' speakers for up to 100 hours before they really start to sound sweet, made me think that if I ever need to put my spare headphones into use, perhaps I ought to do the same thing with them. Consequently, I've been playing a UB40 'Best Of' CD (nice and bass heavy you see) on random/repeat at a middling volume for a couple of days solid, in the belief that this will 'limber up' the diaphragms so that they won't sound so tight and new whenever I come to use them.
Is there any basis in fact for the idea that 'running in' speaker cones and headphone diaphragms will improve the way they sound?
