Yes. Retail box, which is foam filled heavy cardboard with a cutout for the headphones and cables and all that. 

Saw these a week ago. $129 from Newegg. Read Tyll's review. Ordered same day.   They arrived today. I unboxed them a while ago... rediscovered my favorite songs, and danced harder than I ever have before.    What felt like 15 minutes was 1.5 hours. Now I'm exhaused and I've dropped in to say...

Got the Amazon $19.99 version in black. Quite nice. Doesn't work with my phone correctly, but I just used the included shirt clip to hold the mic button down.   The cable isn't as bad as everyone says. Its just a minor annoyance.

SR80s are really leaky. It would be a real problem in a library environment.

Speaking of rebranding...   http://www.head-fi.org/forum/thread/509009/fischer-audio-rebranding-only  

I think the scam is that you think you are dealing with one group of people selling a product, based on the brand, and you are really dealing with a completely different set of folks, and an inconsistent product they aren't very involved in.   For example... V-Moda Vibes were designed and...

  Fischer Audio's master series of headphones all seem to be Yoga Electronics headphones, rebranded. Specs match. I think they changed the logo, but thats all I see that's different.   http://www.yoga.com.tw   CD-880 and CD-990 in the Yoga Monitor series are FA-002s and FA-003s...

http://www.yoga.com.tw/style/content/CN-10-2c/product_detail.asp?lang=2&customer_id=2000&name_id=78835&rid=39696&id=251302   Fischer's are rebranded Yogas.

Havn't encountered a house sound I hate. Some I like more than others, but I have a mood to fit every house sound.   

Since your girlfriend has such tiny, oddly shaped ears, I have read the ATH-ES7 be circumaural on her, and if not then the ATH-WS70 may be.    Those are pretty cool looking, and portable.    Take a look at the Fischer Audio FA-004 and FA-003. They may be good. The reviews are comparing...

I pick out the brands of fountain pens used in old movies, and new period flicks.    The only normal people are the ones you don't know very well.   We aren't obsessed. We are inspired.

Last bump for votes.

  Quote:   I don't think theres anything demanding that cost, other than what the market will pay. They could probably sell it for half that price and still make a huge profit (or way more due to volume), depending on their costs, and scalability. They use 4 proprietary BA drivers...

Worse yet is the Portland Head-Fi meet is this Sunday!!!

Quote: Well said.

Quote: I've never thought of birdwatching or trainspotting as all that normal... 

Quote: I think the Monster Turbines are great. Its fun at the expense of the guy that started the company.. who is way cooler than me anyway. Do I have an audio company? No. Am I on stage with Dr. Dre? No. Do I own a segway? No... well, mostly cooler than me.    Look at the size of...

I have an old 81-82 Bridgestone 700 I really adore. All the vintage Suntour stuff.   I've only upgraded the brakes, and put on bar end shifters.

Wow. Pen-fi. I'm guess I shouldn't be surprised that some headphone addictianados love pens as well. I thought I got away from the fountain pen addiction hobby.   I had a Lamy 2000 for a number of years. Its a great pen. Neil Gaiman uses the Lamy 2000 as well. He refers to it as his 'novel...

11 to 4 with 6 abstaining at 48 hours later   (this is really just a bump for more votes)

Dynamic drivers improve with burn in more often than not. Getting used to the way a particular IEM sounds is 90% of the "burn in" process IMO. I'm not sure it ever stops... I do know when going back to other IEMs from the HJE900 is more of a shock than I'm used to with other IEMs. Even when...

If you want the best cheap bass-heavy headphones, I'd recommend the Playaz Audio AR100s. They are around $25 with shipping anywhere in the world, About $12.50 in Germany.   Playaz-Audio.de        

Price doesn't change the way something sounds. It really shouldn't set expectations.    I'm not aware of a single BA driver that costs more than $45 to buy one at a time... and thats from a reseller. I am guessing, but I imagine in quantities over 1000, the top Knowles BA driver costs no...

Wow i just decided that Monster is an awful company that needs to die. Noel Lee, the Kim Jong lookalike on the tricked out segway (which once seen, can never be unseen) was a scientist at Lawrence Livermore labs before he decided cables was his bing moneymaker for audio/video. He named the...

Quote: To paraphrase Ghandi, be the change you want to see in this forum.   In other threads 'ilikecans' is busy calling people 'douche' and asking inane questions. I'm on the fence about whether or not he is a troll, or just bad mannered and new to the internet, where its best to...