Nightfall
Headphoneus Supremus
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Hello again,
I hadnt ever expected to author a tragic headphone related post, but I have some unfortunate news of things that recently happened, and could truly use your advice, suggestions, and collected wisdom, as I am at a loss as to what to do.
After having spent a fair bit of time as a member here, and enjoying the community, and the knowledge that all of you so willingly share, I packed up my much appreciated Corda HA-1 and sent it off to Kurt W to be upgraded to Blue status. I decided that I could somehow survive the loss of being unable to listen to headphones (my Beyer DT-931's) for two weeks given the excellent reviews that the upgrade has received across the board here.
I shipped out the amp via two day, Fed Ex, and Kurt received it as scheduled. After everything was finished on his end, I was all set and waiting for the first ever, triple buffered, Corda Blue. Kurt is a great guy, who is such a pleasure to deal with, and I couldnt wait to get the package and plug it in for hours of listening.
Then, something extremely unfortunate struck. Kurt sent it to me via USPS "Priority Mail" which provides a two, sometimes three day delivery. By now you might have guessed it. That was eight days ago, and the package is lost. The Post Office told Kurt that it is possible for it to take up to nine days, but my neighbor works at the main Post Office for my metropolitan area, and he says its toast. In fact, he said that on Monday night.
Kurt did insure it, as promised, but the truly upsetting part is that my amp, and all his work are gone, and the money would cover the costs, but wont get me them back. Not to mention that taking a week to ten days to send payment to Jan Meier in Europe, for another one, then getting it another ten days or so later, sending it out to Kurt again (assuming he still had time and would even do it). Add in the time the upgrade and return shipping to me. Thats simply not going to work, its just a disaster from my perspective. There isnt any way that I could go up to another four or five weeks "minimum" without headphones. Not to mention there is a 21 day waiting period before the Post Office will pay the claim, and they dont even start the clock until Friday. Add it all up, and best case, I "might" have a new, upgraded amp by New Years!
I've been working a LOT of hours, under a LOT of stress, and a couple of hours of headphone listening is the only means I've found to effectively wind down before finally getting some sleep. So much for that.
And I dont even know what options I would have, aside from the overpriced Headroom stuff, there arent many quality headphone amplifiers readily purchaseable, especially given that I would have only a $600.00 budget, and on top of that, I need a 120 ohm connection for the 931's, which virtually nothing has.
I'm just thoroughly disgusted with the USPS and it infuriates me even more that the damned government employees whose salaries we pay are responsible.
I'm just very upset about all of this, And I dont even know where to go from here. There are essentially no good options that I can think of. And I'm left to continue without any means to even listen to my headphones for the forseeable future.
Any advice or suggestions, would be greatly appreciated. The "only" possibility that I've even been able to come up with would be to possibly purchase the new Corda Pre-head 1 (about a MONTH from now when the USPS pays off) but I dont think its actually even available yet, and we still havent seen any reviews of it. I "thought" it was about $650.00, but, much as I trust Jan Meier, I dont feel I could order one as my only headphone amp without any input from some of the experts here concerning its actual quality and sound.
Things feel pretty bleak at the moment, in terms of options. This was just a disastrous way for things to go.
I hadnt ever expected to author a tragic headphone related post, but I have some unfortunate news of things that recently happened, and could truly use your advice, suggestions, and collected wisdom, as I am at a loss as to what to do.
After having spent a fair bit of time as a member here, and enjoying the community, and the knowledge that all of you so willingly share, I packed up my much appreciated Corda HA-1 and sent it off to Kurt W to be upgraded to Blue status. I decided that I could somehow survive the loss of being unable to listen to headphones (my Beyer DT-931's) for two weeks given the excellent reviews that the upgrade has received across the board here.
I shipped out the amp via two day, Fed Ex, and Kurt received it as scheduled. After everything was finished on his end, I was all set and waiting for the first ever, triple buffered, Corda Blue. Kurt is a great guy, who is such a pleasure to deal with, and I couldnt wait to get the package and plug it in for hours of listening.
Then, something extremely unfortunate struck. Kurt sent it to me via USPS "Priority Mail" which provides a two, sometimes three day delivery. By now you might have guessed it. That was eight days ago, and the package is lost. The Post Office told Kurt that it is possible for it to take up to nine days, but my neighbor works at the main Post Office for my metropolitan area, and he says its toast. In fact, he said that on Monday night.
Kurt did insure it, as promised, but the truly upsetting part is that my amp, and all his work are gone, and the money would cover the costs, but wont get me them back. Not to mention that taking a week to ten days to send payment to Jan Meier in Europe, for another one, then getting it another ten days or so later, sending it out to Kurt again (assuming he still had time and would even do it). Add in the time the upgrade and return shipping to me. Thats simply not going to work, its just a disaster from my perspective. There isnt any way that I could go up to another four or five weeks "minimum" without headphones. Not to mention there is a 21 day waiting period before the Post Office will pay the claim, and they dont even start the clock until Friday. Add it all up, and best case, I "might" have a new, upgraded amp by New Years!
I've been working a LOT of hours, under a LOT of stress, and a couple of hours of headphone listening is the only means I've found to effectively wind down before finally getting some sleep. So much for that.
And I dont even know what options I would have, aside from the overpriced Headroom stuff, there arent many quality headphone amplifiers readily purchaseable, especially given that I would have only a $600.00 budget, and on top of that, I need a 120 ohm connection for the 931's, which virtually nothing has.
I'm just thoroughly disgusted with the USPS and it infuriates me even more that the damned government employees whose salaries we pay are responsible.
I'm just very upset about all of this, And I dont even know where to go from here. There are essentially no good options that I can think of. And I'm left to continue without any means to even listen to my headphones for the forseeable future.
Any advice or suggestions, would be greatly appreciated. The "only" possibility that I've even been able to come up with would be to possibly purchase the new Corda Pre-head 1 (about a MONTH from now when the USPS pays off) but I dont think its actually even available yet, and we still havent seen any reviews of it. I "thought" it was about $650.00, but, much as I trust Jan Meier, I dont feel I could order one as my only headphone amp without any input from some of the experts here concerning its actual quality and sound.
Things feel pretty bleak at the moment, in terms of options. This was just a disastrous way for things to go.
