The Grado HF2--It's For Real - Page 161  

so up to about 3pm on the 15th have been shipped. Wish he would update batch #'s

It must be so frustrating to have to keep track like that every day. Do you ever wish you could be put into a really really deep sleep that might last a week or a month or even more so when you wake up all this waiting will have never really happened? I think a lot of people wish that.

Yes, my B22 and Buffalo would be worse if I wasn't building it myself, I would be like HURRY UP ALREADY.

I am actually very happy with my rig now, but I know it will be better, and I want to hear a new range of Grado and this will be it

More than anything Im frustrated I delayed my order for 10 hours on that day because I thought it was charged immediately

Get the TV - you can always get the HF-2s here on Head-Fi down the road for the price of a good 50 inch or so flat screen.

A fine firearm. I remember the first time I shot one in .45, it was out the back door of my Dad's hunting partner's walk-out basement. Scratch one crow, but my 10 year old hand/wrist strength wasn't up to the recoil, and I damn near dropped it. I'd only shot .22 before that, and shot target-style, with one hand.

At least you hit the crow! (Well, assuming that's what you meant to hit, at any rate.) I'm planning to join a friend at a local range this weekend, one with a rental armoury. Hopefully I'll get a chance to shoot a full size .45 auto then (which will be a first for me) before stumping up for one. It's bad enough that I do that with headphones!
I suppose this particular offering isn't that unreasonable... and it'd look bloody good with the rest of the... stuff I have a habit of collecting.

@ grawk~ So Head-Fi's gonna be safe for another... 65 years or so?

I don't know where you guys are finding 1911's and decent 50" displays for $450 but please share!

Maybe he's assuming a 125% price increase like the HF-1s. New for $200, sell in the $450 range. That'd make the HF-2s over a grand .

Somehow I'm doubting the same thing will happen...

Thanks for all the input everyone. Since I've already waited this long, I'm going to keep my order for the HF-2, and save up some more cash and buy the TV later.

Drooolll... you have the Panasonic HT screen. The TV I'm looking to buy is the S1 series.

Well, I can't speak for the TV, but I just blew up the part of the budget I had for a 1911. How's that sound?

It may not buy a decent 50" display, and it sure as shootin' won't buy a 1911, but $450 (or a bit more) will buy a used 720p front projector, then you can have a 100" screen!

I was convinced, before the HF-2 was revealed, that John Grado was not going to allow what happened with the HF-1's on the used market to occur again.

I could be completely wrong on this, but I think when the HF-1 was released, there was supposed to be a set number of headphones that would be built. It ended up exceeding that amount once the incredible demand was realized, but originally I believe it was supposed to be limited to the first 250 or so.

I could be wrong, but I think that the headphones had already been produced (excluding the ones that got added onto the initial run). Meaning that once the allotted number of buyers had been reached, the stock would be exhausted and the HF-1 would no longer be available.

Both of these factors have been significant in the increase in the value of the HF-1 in the used market over time. Those cans were, comparatively, more exclusive.

The HF-2 seems to be guided by a much different marketing strategy. There is no upper limit on how many headphones can be produced. We're already said to be past the 500 mark, which exceeds the total number of HF-1's that were made, and other than 25 people, no one has even received their headphone yet.

Since the headphones are being made significantly later than the introduction of the sale announcement and there isn't a set number available before the model will be sold out, there isn't the same exclusivity.

As a result, I find it unlikely that there will be the type of appreciation in the used market with the HF-2 as there was with the HF-1. Anyone who was around when the HF-1 was released would probably realize that John Grado was very unlikely to allow such a thing to happen again.

But, as a businessman, you can really drum up a lot of hype and interest in a subsequent HF model if you build on what happened after the release of the HF-1 in your release of the HF-2.

I wonder if the sales #'s of the HF-2's would be as high as they currently are if posters hadn't observed what happened with the HF-1 and their price increase over time in the used market. That's why I expect JG would capitalize on that expectation and produce as many HF-2's as possible before ending production.

Personally, while I believe they could appreciate, I would be shocked if they appreciated anywhere near the amount that the HF-1's have, proportionately.

mmm projector the size of my whole wall... sexy...

The HF-2 will appreciate, just watch. If the initial group is as happy with them as they seem to be, there won't be many on the used market. New members are always coming in, so there will be plenty of buyers who will miss buying them new.

Wakeride - there are some pretty fair prices going on the Springfield GI 1911s. IIRC, I paid under $500 for one earlier this year. Nothing fancy, but it's a solid gun.

I will answer to your question next week.