Presentation: Upon initial receipt of these headphones, you immediately feel as though Marty has made them especially for you – because he did.  Marty of Martin Custom Audio does do lines of headphone modifications, but in small quantities and your item, such as this pair of SR-325i Grados is just that – custom and features a serial number.  In the case of this particular pair, it is # 0002.  When you open the shipping box, you are presented with a black rectangular box that has been fitted to hold the Grado foam.  Marty has provided additional...

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I purchased these headphones (ear buds) on my way into work yesterday after desiring something that works - and, hopefully a bit better than my Skull Candy Ink'd ear buds (which have one dead channel) and better than my Sennheiser in-ear ear buds that, for some reason, are no longer producing a nice level of bass - mainly a lot of higher frequency screeching.   After fighting with the JVC packaging on these phones for a few minutes to carefully open them in the event of a desire to return them, I was able to get them out of the package.  The buds...