UPDATE
Here is the next part of the story for all of those who posted:
I bought them this morning (7/7/05) from headroom for $189. I hope to receive them Tuesday, (actually I hoped for Saturday, but not with fedex
. This evening after dinner, my Dad was in a good mood so I decided to drop the beams. Here is the story
My dad was sitting at the computer and he was done playing cards and about to leave and go to bed and read and I told him to click on the minimized headroom page. He said "Oh, yeah I meant to look at that this morning to see what it was.” He opens it and notices that it is a headphones site after he clicks on the '10 best headphones link ‘(the e4c's are one of headroom's ten best, booyah). He remarks, "that’s just what you need, a new pair of headphones." My reply was, "That’s exactly what I am getting,” and we proceeded to the page with the e4c info on it. I told him something like I was getting the best headphones and he came back with the remark, "for the next 3 months, maybe". I said; "I meant the best pair of headphones I’ve ever had, There are better phones than these right now, there's dual driver ones and triple drivers ones...and I don’t care"
Then he saw the price, I think his emotion can best be described by this :
or this
. I told him that the ones I got were $10 less with free shipping and as he added them to the cart to look at shipping and such, I told him that I had already bought them. This is were the resistance really started. “Where’d you get the money?” I replied that I had been selling old headphones and earphone sleeves and such for a week or two. My mom started chiming in about how long it took me to buy these, etc, but didn’t really help because then my dad kinda felt that we had been planning this behind his back. He looked at the picture, “but they’re just ear bubble (I cant quite remember what he said, but it wasn’t earbuds), there’s tiny, how can they be $200.) I started trying to explain how they sound better and such, but it didn’t really get through to him.
After this he believed that I had been seduced by marketing, that ads and headphone seller had convinced me to buy these with, as he put it, mine/his money. I was angry at this point (convinced by adds my ass), but I remained calm. I replied that I had been researching these for a couple of weeks, reading
reviews, opinions, etc.
He said, “Who’s reviews, some 80 year old grandmothers reviews?” I said, “No, they were not 80 yr olds” “How do you know” “Because I have seen pictures of them (refering to CNET reviewers, which actually didn’t help me much on this one, but I said it anyway)” Dad says, “What, pictures of 80 yr olds” I said, “Dad, they were headphone reviewers and professional reviewers.” Dad says, “pffffttttt, professional reviewers.” Sensing that I was loosing here, I went back to my last point. “Dad, the reason I bought these from the company I did is because of their return policy, if these aren’t totally worth $189, and I keep all of the little bits and pieced I can return them for free.” That helped, but BY NO MEANS did it convince him. I had one last argument in my holster. “Dad, I feel that you aren’t convinced yet and I feel you need an analogie: remember those Bose Quiet Comfort’s.” “Ya.” “Do you remember the spiffy little electronic noise isolation in them.” “Ya, it hurt your ears.” “No, that was from the type of headphone (my inner ear can’t take circumaural ‘phones), anyway these headphones block out noise better, sound better, and vastly smaller, and are $100 cheaper (I should have also mentioned that he bought those for me, while I bought these with my allowance).” My dad says, “will you let me try them when you get them?” I said, “No,” My Dad very quickly said, “Why”. “Because I believe you ears are semi-shot (he started mumbling a response, but I kept on going), I remember when you were here at home, listening to your mp3 player, with the volume cranked up to the max, cranked up so hight that you could hear it in a different room (maybe a stretch, I should have said ‘in the hallway’).” My dad, beginning to calm down a bit, said “ give them a fair trial (I will, I will, I said), and only keep them if they are MUCH better” I tried to communicate that this had been my plan all along, but he had to tell me again. My mom said something, and my dad, tired of being convinced, I am better now. I said, half jokingly, “he just had to let it sink in.” I think I said something like, I knew there was going to be resistance, and my dad said there wasn’t any resistance. I said, “Bulls**t there wasn’t any god da*ned resistance” and he started to laugh because he knew it was true I think. That was just about it, he told be to give them a fair evaluation one more time and he went to bed.
This is how it occurred to the best of my reccolection, I have tried not to embellish anything and I tried not to make anyone sound better or worse than they were. When my e4c’s have arrived I will test and compare them with my e2c’s and post a full review and comparison on head-fi.
