I think I played the Empy for 100 hours on my amp stand before I listened. Luckily for my I have some external speakers connected to my Benchmark HPA4. I could drive the headphones and the preamp out to my amp (now sold) at the same time. So I was able to avoid the temptation of putting the headphones one. At around 100 hours I had to put them on because I had work to finish late at night and my toddler was sleeping.
At the 100 mark hour the headphones were not sounding that great. I think it was around 150 hours when I started to enjoy them and at 200 hours really love them. They became exceptional to me when I replaced the stock cable with the WyWire Platinum (copper) XLR. It really added the extra bit of detail that I was thinking was missing. I just love the headphones now with the Benchmark HPA4.
As I posted earlier, switching to the Bryston BHA-1 headphone amp I do not like the cleaner WyWire XLR with it. I need a more coloured cable to tame what I think is a bit too much bass from the headphone amp.
I just noticed my comment above on the BHA-1 was on another thread.
At the 100 mark hour the headphones were not sounding that great. I think it was around 150 hours when I started to enjoy them and at 200 hours really love them. They became exceptional to me when I replaced the stock cable with the WyWire Platinum (copper) XLR. It really added the extra bit of detail that I was thinking was missing. I just love the headphones now with the Benchmark HPA4.
As I posted earlier, switching to the Bryston BHA-1 headphone amp I do not like the cleaner WyWire XLR with it. I need a more coloured cable to tame what I think is a bit too much bass from the headphone amp.
I just noticed my comment above on the BHA-1 was on another thread.