Pharmaboy
Headphoneus Supremus
I ordered my new X2 a little over 6 years ago. It was a time of turmoil, where the Phillips to Woox/Gibson transition had caused QC issues with X2s, to the point that Amazon was temporarily barring their sale on the website so as not to continue piling up angry customers and paypal cases.
I bought mine from eBay. They were brand new and the box had the markings described (in the online headphone community of the day) as being OK, not risky to purchase.
I lucked out. Mine sounded wonderful from day-1. They still do sound wonderful. In the years since I've learned a ton about headphone audio and have (had) any number of headphones that beat the X2s in every sonic category.
But my X2s still sound great. It's the same relaxing/enveloping/open sound I first fell in love with. Bassy, though not high in bass resolution--but that's OK. For what I paid for the X2s, they were my first serious headphone "win" and still please me...
I bought mine from eBay. They were brand new and the box had the markings described (in the online headphone community of the day) as being OK, not risky to purchase.
I lucked out. Mine sounded wonderful from day-1. They still do sound wonderful. In the years since I've learned a ton about headphone audio and have (had) any number of headphones that beat the X2s in every sonic category.
But my X2s still sound great. It's the same relaxing/enveloping/open sound I first fell in love with. Bassy, though not high in bass resolution--but that's OK. For what I paid for the X2s, they were my first serious headphone "win" and still please me...
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