Headphones for fusion - Buy these!

I don't like listening to music on headphones.

I have preferred speakers in the past, but use headphones when my employee and/or wife are in the office. Aside from the wife factor, headphones have their benefits. They're sort of like motorcycles vs. cars - they will always outperform there bigger brethren in some ways, at a much lower price. You don't get the same heft, impact, or sound of the room (for better or worse), but the detail/imaging can be tough to match with speakers. And like motorcycles, because of the price/size, you can have a fleet of them to suit different occasions. I like having multiple ways to experience my music. And these guys open a totally new window to things I've never experienced before.

I'm skeptical of burn-in as well. Cable burn-in? Hmm... Maybe, but that's a hair I have no desire to split. Transister burn-in, makes more sense, but still subtile.

But with something mechanical, like a speaker, it makes sense that flexible bits would become more pliable with use, and not out of the question that the sound would change. Here we're talking about "break-in", not "burn-in". Jeans & shoes become more comfortable after some use, why not speakers? I have experienced substantial changes with speakers after break-in to where they sounded downright broken at first, and some change daily after a warm-up period.

But with this particular headphone, even the people that don't care about break-in agree that there is a noticeable change, and really matters. It has a different kind of "pistonic" driver than other headphones.