@cleeds we seem to be referencing two different studies. I have been referring to this one https://www.mdpi.com/2076-3417/15/15/8425
No wonder we weren’t quite seeing eye to eye.
Burn in and peer reviewed brain research
Not to broach a religious topic, but I know burn in discussions happen all the time in audio circles. Until today, I had not found any scientific research from the brain side.
This article was interesting: https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC10898501/
It is a 2024 review in Cureus (Kalchev, PMC10898501) that surveyed the physiological, psychological, and social dimensions of audio burn-in. It found no substantial evidence for mechanical changes producing audible differences, and instead identified several well-documented mechanisms — ear fatigue, confirmation bias, placebo effects, and neural acclimatization — that adequately explain perceived changes without requiring the equipment to have changed at all.
Has anyone found other literature of this type – physiological, psychoacoustic, rather than engineering/mechanical? I'd be curious to learn about it.
Of course, anyone who wants to put their hand on a bible and swear that burn in is real based on personal experience is welcome to do so, but I'm hoping to find things beyond the anecdotal.
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Ahhh, yes, @jastralfu. You are correct. Mea culpa. The study you've mentioned I haven't yet reviewed. |
Hm, retailers. |
Interesting comments and thanks for the additional reference. That's what I was hoping for. Glad to see some here have turned to just calling this a study without the quotation marks. It may be a bad study with spurious conclusions, but it is a study. As for people "personally" attesting to burn-in or calling it "real real," that's special pleading but it's definitely something the OP study acknowledges. The study definitely believes that you believe in burn in. No doubt about that. |
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