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roladyzator t1_j94t4qt wrote

Reply to comment by rimrink in What would happen if I covered the grills of an open back headphone? by gingerisdeadinside

Off-topic, but try listening like that for a minute or two and then remove your hands. Now for a brief moment the music will sound a little off. Yet there are people who refuse to belive in brain adaptation as explanation for burn-in.

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No_Analysis6187 t1_j94tzoa wrote

Impossible! You mean I wasted hundreds of hours playing pink noise with headphones I don't actually like?

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Grieflax t1_j97mpkk wrote

I just want to thank people like you in this community for dissuading me of the notion that burn in is a thing that exists.

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roladyzator t1_j97vi57 wrote

You're welcome:-)

The reason such tiny our even immeasurable differences can work for us is psychological. Because the sound entering our ears is extremely complex, what our brain can do to reduce it to individual instruments, melody, sense of rhythm and even sense of sound quality is astonishing. We can't remember so much detail. When we expect a difference, we trick our minds to analyze the sound again and we can make new notions about the sound. Sound doesn't change (or changes very little), but we do.

Try to visualize how the palm of your hands looks like, for example. Then look at it and compare to what you imagined. The difference in the level of detail between our memory and the real- time emotive experience is crazy. If someone told you're developing some mild skin condition, how easy would it be for you to find something in that picture that is different to what you remember?

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amano32 t1_j98p1vi wrote

You can mitigate brain adaptation by using EQ. If you’re used to EQ, you will never adapt to a headphone, which in long term actually develop your taste to a specific tuning.

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