Audiophiles are crazy

apropos of nothing · Post by **apropos of nothing** » Mon Nov 18, 2013 6:59 am

People do this?
http://www.wired.com/gadgetlab/2013/11/ ... e-burn-in/

ubertar · Post by **ubertar** » Mon Nov 18, 2013 7:15 am

While he's right that that's crazy, he doesn't seem to know what earphones are. He's talking about earbuds.

I've never heard of people doing that with earphones or earbuds or whatever, but I know there are people who do something similar with acoustic stringed instruments, to simulate the years of playing an instrument and how that affects the tone. Maybe that's how this got started.

Gregg Juke · Post by **Gregg Juke** » Mon Nov 18, 2013 9:13 am

If you look at their other article on -in-ears, you'll see that the magazine's editorial position (tm) is that "ear-buds" are the disc-shaped, iPod-type, not-quite-staying-in-your-ear variety, while what they call "ear-phones" are the kind like Skullcandy and others that actually insert into the ear canal, a la a cheap version of in-ear monitors...

GJ

ubertar · Post by **ubertar** » Mon Nov 18, 2013 10:34 am

Seems an odd nomenclature to me. "Earphones", to me, are the big, padded things that go around your ears, not in them. I guess I'd call the ones that insert into the ear canal "audio earplugs" for want of a better term. What does Wired call old-school earphones?

Gregg Juke · Post by **Gregg Juke** » Mon Nov 18, 2013 11:52 am

Headphones...

GJ

Bro Shark · Post by **Bro Shark** » Mon Nov 18, 2013 12:17 pm

Enjoy.

http://lessloss.com/

ubertar · Post by **ubertar** » Mon Nov 18, 2013 12:21 pm

Gregg Juke wrote:Headphones...

GJ

Heh. Ah-doy.

I think my brain went on vacation and failed to notify me!

Gregg Juke · Post by **Gregg Juke** » Mon Nov 18, 2013 12:46 pm

I am into that quad-core woven electric cord. I'm having all of the lamps in my house refitted with it.

Interestingly enough, I'm going for a more "raw" sound in the studio, so I'm replacing everything there with old two-prong light-guage lamp cord. Everything. And then I'm only writing songs in the keys of Bb-B, to correspond as closely as possible to 60-cycles...

GJ

JWL · Post by **JWL** » Mon Nov 18, 2013 9:59 pm

Burn in on speakers (any kind of transducer) I can kind of understand. It has moving parts.

What gets my goat is when audiophiles talk about burning in amps, preamps, or.... believe it or not.... CABLES.

Yah, those $3000 speaker wires sound MUCH better after they burn in for a couple weeks.

jhharvest · Post by **jhharvest** » Tue Nov 19, 2013 3:19 pm

JWL wrote:Yah, those $3000 speaker wires sound MUCH better after they burn in for a couple weeks.

Well, at least the stove distortion might fade slightly after a couple of weeks. (Stove distortion is of course the special type of distortion that's audible from the direction of the stove after you spend too much money on expensive gear. Afaik research into it was pioneered by a Finnish hifi magazine in the 90s.)

vvv · Post by **vvv** » Tue Nov 19, 2013 4:01 pm

Bro Shark wrote:Enjoy.

http://lessloss.com/

"Our innovative solution for dealing with the inevitable distortions..."

Gregg Juke · Post by **Gregg Juke** » Tue Nov 19, 2013 7:57 pm

The International Icon for stove distortion is a little stick figure guy shoveling a wheel-barrow's full of money into a furnace...

GJ

Snarl 12/8 · Post by **Snarl 12/8** » Tue Nov 19, 2013 11:54 pm

Do the audiophiles who use those types of power cables use something other than standard Romex in their walls? They must. And all the way back to the power company, too. That must get a bit spendy. I'd hate to see how much their service panel and circuit breakers cost. She-it!

vvv · Post by **vvv** » Wed Nov 20, 2013 4:21 am

Why, they must be solar-powered.

That said, I always burn-in my toasters, toaster-ovens, and panini and waffle-makers.

Gregg Juke · Post by **Gregg Juke** » Wed Nov 20, 2013 6:17 am

I hope you're not still cooking with natural gas. You know how that makes the pasta have that harsh, brittle sound? Try an open flame that you start yourself with sticks in a bowl on the kitchen table.

No, of course not; not just any sticks... You need the Tangui Super Hi-Fi Pasta Fire-Starting Sticks available at Amazon (only $6,992.56 MSRP; street price is usually about $4 Grand).

GJ

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