Anyone know where they're on sale in the US?

There back up to normal price. Lucky those who got the deal like me :).

Quote: http://www.amazon.com/Audio-Technica-ATHM50S-Professional-Monitor-Headphones/dp/B004ZG9TMA/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&qid=1318906467&sr=8-2   Sold by Amazon.

The Audio Technica ATHM50S are 131.26 on Amazon. That's the lowest I've seen them in quite a while. Edit: Bought a pair!

Looks great!

Angled with more rounder edges.

The old cables had a more shinny finish and felt plasticky while the new ones have matte finish and feel more rubbery.

I sent them in about 3 weeks ago.

So I sent my Ultimate Ears 700 to be replaced as I had broken my cable and to my surprise UE had redesigned the cabling on the new IEMs (My replacement was brand new and sealed in retail packaging)! The cabling is much better and greatly reduces one of the issues that I had with the UE700 which...

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Not to through a wrench in everything but I have both the UE700 and SE215 and much prefer the UE700 to the SE215. I feel like the SE215 have too much bass and aren't that comfortable. UE700 on the other hand are extremely comfortable to the point you forget you had them on and sound great (I...

So I decided to go with the Z1000. I purchased them for $313 from Beach Audio. Hopefully everything goes well! Thanks for everyone's comments!

Thanks MayaTlab! I very much appreciate your comments. Now the major items that I'm worried about is that the Sony MDR-Z1000 won't have enough bass to please me. I'm not a bass head per se, but I very much appreciate the amount of bass my Grado 325i's have and I didn't enjoy the lack of bass...

I'm looking for some closed headphones (so I can use them at the library) and the Sony MDR-Z1000 have been on my list. Do you guys think these are competitive in relative terms to the DT1350, HD25-1 II and the ATHM50. Doing a Google product search I'm able to find them at about $300 so they're...

I need these to be for sale already... bought some Shure SE215 to keep me going until these come out!

I'm in!

Thanks, I very much appreciate you taking the time to let us know.

So do we have a specific release date yet?