Myth

I don’t think you need to burn in headphones but I do know that very loud playback DOES change the sound temporarily. My father has pretty severe hearing impairment on one side, enough that hearing aids just barely help, so he uses his headphones at extremely high volume on only one side to gain some degree of stereo because otherwise his world is mono. Any time he has tried my headphones, for a period of time afterwards there is a very noticable mismatch between the drivers. Don’t know what specifically is happening but its happened on 3 different sennheiser headphones and it goes away completely eventually. This is also at volumes I don’t recommend anyone who’s ears currently work expose themselves to so this is hardly proof that regular volumes do anything to the drivers… but I am quite sure that it is actually possible for playback to alter the drivers.

Oh lawd, here we go again.

Myth. If i dont listen to my r70x for long enough and put them back on again they sound absolutely majestic. If i use them regularly they dont sound as special.

Take breaks off and your ears will thank you, and you will enjoy the sound more.

I believe these burn in stuff back then, but after I joined a few manufacturer jobs, this thing is kind of myth, because most of the stuff already tested at least certain of times before you can even buy it, and the burn in effect, is actually how your ears start to adapt the headphones imo, that product doesn’t do anything at all even you burned in whole day. Unless you are buying some really antique 2nd hand headphones like 10 years not in use, then a little burn time to reactivates the components is makes more sense

Its BS

Use your device as normal

It worked with blank cds and mp3s back in the day