Quote:   Or, in the alternative, listen to some music that isn't horrible.   

Short review: oh my gawd  

I don't think I've posted since the The Great HF-2 Event of 2009, but I was compelled to announce that the 535s are going to be my next piece of gear.  Got a little raise at work and had to treat myself.   I've been using the old SE-310s for quite a few years now, and I've liked them quite a...

You guys just need to give the Steorn Orbo-- uh, sorry, Magnum upgrades-- a little more time! And money. That too!

Quote: Originally Posted by champ I will be picking some up this weekend--a local store carries them. I am now more curious than ever to hear what they sound like. Flats =! comfies/soft pads. AFAIK only TTVJ sells flats--proper flats, as Joe Godo (sic) intended--unless the...

Quote: Originally Posted by pdupiano clearly this site (well not the site so much as its members) will persecute anything connected to: Bose, Monster, Skull Candy, beats by dre oh wait thats monster -ok take that as an example. So pretty much anything remotely related to those gets...

Quote: Originally Posted by jbarendt "sk" meaning skullcandy. i know everyone on this site hates them. and i have NOTHING against candadians. my bad... lol. i think im even a bit canadian myself. i was just wondering if the agents and hesh were the same quality cuz theyre both $50...

Quote: Originally Posted by cruizin caleb when you spend the extra $50 for the 125i, what more (in lemans terms) do you get out of it? You get 1/10 of one 1981 Pontiac Lemans.

Quote: Originally Posted by busanblues i do not know why the mailman left the box right out there.. either....i don't mind going to post office and pick this up or he could have left the box in front of my apartment door... i am really hoping that someone opened it by mistake and...

#199 sped through the aether and onto my ears today. Ordered in May; had to have Todd hold my order for shipment for an extra week and a half while I was out of the country.

DXC's website lists most of their Grados as being out of stock, but I was just in their Culver store (yesterday) and they definitely have Grados for demo (just had their RS1s grace my noggin) and I think most are actually in stock in the physical location. The Grados they have to demo are...

This should really bring out the grattle. Grado has always been pathetically half-assed in bringing the grattle sound to the forefront, where it belongs. Kidding. . . looks interesting.

Quote: Originally Posted by les_garten You obviously don't know Porsche 911s... . Just the ones past the warranty period. Gah, you can't even recognize a good-natured joke.

Les, I hope for all of our sakes that the HF2s are a lot more reliable than a Porsche 911.

Quote: Originally Posted by Lil' Knight Why care much about the burn-in? Just enjoy them and burn-in them when you don't have time to listen. Life is too short to listen. Alternately, just listen to them. People fetishize burn-in 'round these parts.

Quote: Originally Posted by MadMan007 And you know this how? Did you take a survey of every single or 'most' purchasers? Are they truly 'perfectly' happy, or just settling as someone else said? Or just sucking up which I get from the tone of lots of posts. So you agree with...

[Edit: to craiglester] I don't think it's fair to accuse Todd of being blasé about this. Who the hell knows what conversations Todd and John had before Todd's announcement? What more could you expect Todd to do on this? He acknowledged and publicized the error, he'll take returns on those...

Quote: Originally Posted by les_garten How do you know what their margins are? I suspect their margins were $250-$300/set, if no screw ups had happened. How do you know what their margins are?

Trust me, pal, I can read quite well. You may want to learn how to multi-quote, though. Grado is offering a limited edition product. The vast majority of people who ordered said product are perfectly satisfied with a I-1 transposition. If you are not, the best way to voice your satisfaction...

Nice double post, UGA2010. 2 more and you can qualify for buying an HF2 and then bitch about it some more. Most customers are perfectly fine with a little typo on a limited production run that was not intended to be as profitable as Grado's regular line. The typo was noted with plenty of...

Quote: Originally Posted by Toad i love my a5s...also, unlike grado, audioengine has the best customer service i've ever dealt with, out of any company, not just headphone/audio related. I second this; excellent customer service from these guys. Not to derail the thread (lol)...

Quote: Originally Posted by tk3 Yes, Grado Head-F1 HF2, here I come! Oooh, nice. I thought Todd was waiting 'til tomorrow to ship the next round. PS: A lot of you self-proclaimed "Grammar Nazis" wouldn't even make it as "Grammar Prussians (Post-Sarajevo Crisis)."

HD-25-1 II is $200 on amazon (and headroom, too!). You can also get the Audio-Technica ATH-M50 for less than $200 on amazon or headroom. If you can, order from headroom or another one of the head-fi sponsors, ok? Their customer service is world's better than amazon's, anyway. Shure has a...

Quote: One time I was really hungry for some raisins. I went to the store and they didn't have raisins. They had a box of something called "ra1sins," but the picture on the box looked like raisins. I stared at the box, thinking "are these raisins or are they ra1sins? And how should I...

Quote: Originally Posted by John D. I'm one more person that is flabbergasted about the decision to ignore this problem. As it stands now about 480 people will receive 2nd Class headphones. This is no way to handle corrective action on a known defect. These headphone cups are flat...