Sounds like a lot of goodies in one place...unfortunately I'll be moving to the Portland area about a month too late :(   Have fun y'all.

Just gave my new set a little make-over and did the whole dynamat and remove foam mod.  Currently letting my fill settle in, but they sound and look pretty damn sexy!    

What a scummer.   I can def. relate - I had my house broken into a few weeks ago and they stole my messenger bag (presumably to carry more of my belongings in).  My SE530's AND my good old e2c's were in one of the pockets along with my trusty 5 year old ipod.

Very true...also found two old tube testers - one from circa 1946 and another from probably 60-70's with updated charts for testing.  Both work.   It's probably going to take me a few days to haul most of this stuff home but I'll catalog it all and let everyone know what I've got.  As of now...

Excellent, thanks.  I'm going to cart these home over the next few days and I'll try to catalog what I've got.  I'm pretty sure I saw a handful of 12AT7's, but there's probably a total of a few hundred to look through.

I just found one hell of a score of NOS tubes buried in my lab at work, does anyone happen to have a list of tube models that have been tried/verified working?  I was trying to look through but 360+ pages is a lot to comb.

They Sony Hybrids came in today and immediately made an enormous difference - with the L's the left side still seals just fine and the right seems to actually be doing the same.  I'm going to take a quick walk around the office and see if they hold up.

Has anyone gone about actually measuring the spacing and diameter of the pins?  They look like, to my eye, standard .1" spacing.  In this case you could probably use a plain old 2-pin molex type (or other generic) connector so long as there is no surrounding sheathing/plastic.   Just my two...

I just mentioned this to someone else - while I'm confident I can do the rewiring (I'm an electrical engineer and solder things basically for a living on a much smaller scale) I wouldn't want to take the risk of messing up your earphones either.   If you decide to replace the se420s with...

I've never done any rewiring at the speaker end, but I'm an electrical engineer and I've soldered my fair share of extremely tiny parts, so it would probably be doable depending on the situation.  At the very worst, if you get a replacement pair and aren't going to make use of the 'broken' ones...

But they look so nice!

Keep in mind - there's a deal through Razordog right now for the IE8's priced at $399-$130 with coupon razordog130.  There's a full thread on this in the forum but I figured I'd let you know.

Well in being impulsive I'm already both listed them for sale while also ordering Sony Hybrids...we'll see which happens first.  I don't know if changing the cable is going to do me any good, as the problem seems to be the actual shape of my inner ear.

They're firmly out of the price range you've listed, but I absolutely love the look of the cherry on the ATH-ESW9, for what it's worth.

It's really a shame, but I think I'm just going to see if I can swing a sale or trade rather than try buying tips.  If nothing comes along within a week or so maybe I'll change my mind and buy some of the Sony Hybrids.