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If you've heard the Westones and you know you really like them already, you might just want to go straight there, though I guess it'll really depend on how much longer you'd have to wait, how long you're willing to wait, and what return policies are like. If return policies are good, you could conceivably try the GR07s and return them if you don't think they're that good. Not sure what the second two paragraphs are about though, could you clarify?
My problems is the following: I live in Brasil, and it's simply impossible to buy any headphone here because or they are insanely overpriced(like US$ 100 - 180 for an Sennheiser HD201, I still can belive in it, or a beats solo for US$ 500, beats are specially overpriced) or simply there is nowhere to buy(just to name a few brands that simply aren't sold here: Westone, yuin, hifiman, beyerdynamics, etymotic...), as is for most kinds of eletronics, cars, or anything that's not made inside Brasil.
As a consequence, I bought and buy most of eletronic/audio/computer stuff abroad when either a travel or a friend/relative travels. For an example, I bought recently my AKG K550(loving them btw) when I traveled early this year. I thought I would only travel again next year so I found out that a aunt would be traveling latter this year so I was going to ask her to bring a pair for me, but since there is a US$ 500 quota in the customs, I didn't want to fill her quota with only my headphone, that's why I originaly asked for something under US$ 200. She was going to travel in late April.
Unexpectadly I found out that I'll probably have the chance to travel again, so not only I'll have more room and so room for the westone 4, but also also that would be this year, July, and so I wouldn't have to wait a lot. Time in this case wouldn't be a problem. Also I'm already saving for the westone 4, so it's in my budget plan, that's what I meant by not being limited on the US$ 200, since I'm not overloading somebody else I don't have problem to get them.
When I traveled I had the chance to hear the Westone 4 along many others between the airports(InMotion Entertariment is a blessed store), among them the Klipsch S4, Ultimate Ears UE600, Shure SE215, SE315, SE425, SE535, Westone 2, 3 & 4 and the one(s) that got my atention were the Westone's, and my favorite was the Westone 4. Since I had already spent more money than I originaly intended before hearing them I decided not to spend an aditional US$ 400( fiio e5 amp included in the price I think).
I remember my impressions about all those phones, at least I wrote most of them while still on the airplane so I know "how they sound like", and so I wouldn't going to be buying them blindly. Since I never heard the GR07 and probably I'm not going to anytime soon, I would have to buy them
solely based on reviews, without hearing them myself, and though I bought some phones in this basis, it's not something that I like to do nor that I want to keep doing If I can avoid.
About return policies. All that I can say is that even if there are, I can't use them because I wouldn't pass more than 2 weeks or at max a month abroad so it would be at least dificult to contact and ask for a refund for a piece that I don't want to keep. So what I buy I have to keep or resell it here to a friend or alike. On the best case scenario, I get international warranty to my products to keep my mind at ease, worst and not so uncommon case, I'm on my own.
