[shockdoc]

I agree with the guy who surmised that in a vain attempt to keep up with JVC, Sennheiser tired to incorporate carbon natto tube technology in their drivers. 

 

 

[Delirious Lab]

Maybe the cans sat next to a Schiit stack for too long?...
 

 
(I know, lame...)

 

[LugBug1]

Maybe they got fed too much poo-er. 
 
(yup not havin a good day myself..)

 

[captslow]

Damn cliffhangers... All I want to know now is what the smell was and how you plan to alleviate the problem

 

[SpyderRoll]

Am I the only one more curious about how much you paid for the HD800? Lol...

 

[mcandmar]

Me too, tell us about the stinking discount you got..

 

[Jmstrmbn]

  Me too, tell us about the stinking discount you got..

I hope this was deliberate

 

[kookoo]

Am I the only one more curious about how much you paid for the HD800? Lol...

You're not the only one, for the kind of stink he's describing...I'm imagining it would be a bargain barring the smell

 

[StanD]

Hey, where's the rest of the story? I smell something fishy going on. 

 

[Baxide]

  Hey, where's the rest of the story? I smell something fishy going on. 

He took an early bath.

 

[Joe Bloggs]

He took an early bath.

I don't get it lol

 

[shockdoc]

I have a feeling we're all going to need a bath after we finally hear the "harrowing" end to this story. At this point if it doesn't include international espionage and a sexy double agent as well as the cavalry charging down the hill to save the day I think it's going to be extremely anti-climactic.

 

[Sonido]

This is one of those stories that have no endings, but also an infinite number of endings. It has been purposefully left open to interpretation by the author for readers to determine for themselves what the ending should be. Like the ending of Inception, where our protagonist may be living in a dream, or perhaps a dream within a dream, we have to ask ourselves if there was a smell, or perhaps a finer aroma within the overbearing scent. We have to ask ourselves whether it was even a smell in the first place, or perhaps it was actually an unpalatable taste, or a taste within the taste or a smell within a taste within another smell. Or maybe it is really you, the reader, who really owns this pair of smelly, distasteful headphones and that the story is not complete because you have not completed your next course of action on your own pair of headphones to allow for this story to progress. And that you are actually mrscotchguy. That you have a split personality. And that, I, Sonido am also you, but a third personality that cannot withstand your complaints any longer to finish up the story, and that I am giving you a hint on what all of this means, and why the story is not finished. Because simply stated, the story cannot finish unless you release all inhibitions, and only then can you truly complete the story yourself. So listen to me. Listen to yourself.
 
So quit complaining and go listen to your smelly headphones.

 

[LugBug1]

Well I think this thread has been a breath of fresh air! 

 

[shipsupt]

I'll throw in a cheap HD-800 story to hold us over!  
 
I took the bait on a "too good to be true" HD-800 deal.  The seller offered them at $600 with a promise that the only issue were damaged cables.  Easy fix, right?  When the headphones arrived they condition was not exactly as advertised.  The headphones themselves were in perfect condition, but the pads were, well, not.  They appeared to have been used for daily workouts or some other activity that left them looking far worse than any other I have ever seen, or smelled.  I honestly could hardly bring myself to touch them.
 
Literally equipped with rubber gloves the pads were easily removed and burned in my back yard.  Putting them in the garbage just didn't seem adequate to properly dispose of the waste product.
 
A quick sanitizing of the headband and headphones left them in as new condition.  Sennheiser had new ear pads and headband pad to my doorstep in a days time.  A friend passed on an unused stock cable and they were up and running in no time.
 
I was still $$ ahead after a little effort.  I wonder how the OP made out?