Cool. Thanks for the good luck! :) You've been of immeasurable help to me :beerchug:

:xf_eek: Damn! What? You have to be an authorized seller? Well, I know the store I'm buying from is an actual physical location. I can read/write Chinese, so I did a bit of research on them, and I've come to the conclusion that they're an authorized reseller (a place called 上海知音堂 with the...

Dang, really? They could do better with advertising that they have EU stock. Crap. And no warranty if on Taobao? Even if it's the legit thing? Where'd you hear that? That's really odd. I'd do it through Hifiman, but as I said, they only offer one shipping service price / carrier from what I saw...

Ah, no problem. Now I get it. I thought Sundara did have a metal yoke because all of it is metal. Aye, something to get me through is right for now. I'll likely pick them up later. It's good to know that they're worth the upgrade. At least this confirms my intentions. At moment I use $8...

The Sundara of 2 years ago has this problem including the latest batch? Because that's the only one that exists, I think? There is no new revision of it from what I read (read this on headphone review site that asked Hifiman about whether the newer stealth revision had anything different, but...

Have you read this? https://www.head-fi.org/showcase/hifiman-deva.24334/reviews Seems to be pretty good. Generally the reviews on it are good.

Haha, that's funny. Thank you for doing that :D Well, based on what you've said about your old 400i version, it seems that it wasn't so bad after all in terms of quality, especially if the yoke broke after so long. In that case, you could theoretically have fixed it by buying a replacement (a...

I'm curious about tossing in a 2mm thick "trap" for higher frequencies with melamine between the driver and the ear pads. How would that do? Would it be excessive and kill the highs? Anyone have experience with what melamine would do to the frequency response?

Right. The QC issue is a huge deal breaker for me. I was going to go for Sundara version instead, but with high failure rates on those and the horror stories I read, I rather not take a chance (not convenient to send stuff back and forth from my current/temporary location in the world). I guess...

Wow, cool! Thanks for telling me. That's an incredible price difference! I thought the HE4XX with the old design was crappier (with many QC issues reported) for "better" drivers, so I'm surprised that it's the same exact driver with no changes to it. Same surprise for the older 400i and the...

Hello, all. I'm hoping someone can help me out here! After looking at frequency responses between the 400i and Sundara, I've decided that the Sundara isn't worth the $$ (nor is it really affordable to me unless I were in the U.S. which is not the case right now). Anyway... I can't get any info...