Nanker Phelge
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My SR-60s (purchased in 2009 and not the SR-60is) just returned in record time from servicing at Grado Labs. Fantastic. But they're not the same headphones I sent in.
Before sending in the original damaged pair, I scanned them to identify them as mine when they returned. The wear on the silver paint of the words -- The Prestige Series, SR 60, Grado Labs -- on the cups and grills are completely different. I'm not complaining about the wear to the paint, the paint was worn and chipped like that new out of the box three years ago, but I kind of liked the idea that those were going to be my cans for the next decade or so. I broke them in with pink noise after I bought them, I bought the HD414 ear pads, and I took care of them best I could. They fit like a glove and I recognized the sound. They were perfect and they were mine.
The ones I'm currently using as I listen to the Butthole Surfers' first album and write this post are new or refurbished. They have to be. There would be no reason to open up or replace the cups (especially both cups), as the only problem was the left channel cord fraying away from the plastic triangular junction that separates the left and right channel cords (I have no idea what that piece or part is called), causing the wires to loosen and eventually lose connection so that the sound didn't work. That little plastic piece would have been the only thing that would have needed to be opened and/or replaced for a little soldering. Although a minor repair on this forum, I was willing to part with $25 and the cost of shipping for factory servicing because I have no experience with soldering and wasn't willing to learn on my beloved headphones.
Should I be disappointed? I kind of am. Should I be happy I got a new or refurbished pair for only $25? I'm really not. And I really hope they aren't refurbished, but the SR-60s are a discontinued model and they probably didn't come from some cache of brand new, undistributed SR-60s. But maybe they did. I don't know. That's why I'm here with these concerns. I'm sure I'll stop obsessing in a fewdays weeks and these will become "mine," but this wasn't what I expected when I sent them in. If I had known my original pair wouldn't have been returned, I would have sought out a local expert to do the minor repair.
Thoughts, sympathy, or chastisement from the real experts, the members of head-fi.org, the forum that turned me on to the SR-60s, would be appreciated.
Thank you.
Before sending in the original damaged pair, I scanned them to identify them as mine when they returned. The wear on the silver paint of the words -- The Prestige Series, SR 60, Grado Labs -- on the cups and grills are completely different. I'm not complaining about the wear to the paint, the paint was worn and chipped like that new out of the box three years ago, but I kind of liked the idea that those were going to be my cans for the next decade or so. I broke them in with pink noise after I bought them, I bought the HD414 ear pads, and I took care of them best I could. They fit like a glove and I recognized the sound. They were perfect and they were mine.
The ones I'm currently using as I listen to the Butthole Surfers' first album and write this post are new or refurbished. They have to be. There would be no reason to open up or replace the cups (especially both cups), as the only problem was the left channel cord fraying away from the plastic triangular junction that separates the left and right channel cords (I have no idea what that piece or part is called), causing the wires to loosen and eventually lose connection so that the sound didn't work. That little plastic piece would have been the only thing that would have needed to be opened and/or replaced for a little soldering. Although a minor repair on this forum, I was willing to part with $25 and the cost of shipping for factory servicing because I have no experience with soldering and wasn't willing to learn on my beloved headphones.
Should I be disappointed? I kind of am. Should I be happy I got a new or refurbished pair for only $25? I'm really not. And I really hope they aren't refurbished, but the SR-60s are a discontinued model and they probably didn't come from some cache of brand new, undistributed SR-60s. But maybe they did. I don't know. That's why I'm here with these concerns. I'm sure I'll stop obsessing in a few
Thoughts, sympathy, or chastisement from the real experts, the members of head-fi.org, the forum that turned me on to the SR-60s, would be appreciated.
Thank you.
