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Originally Posted by charliex /img/forum/go_quote.gif
I decided to look into this build quality issue in more depth, so I removed the HF-2s from my head and have done an exhaustive inspection and still cannot find ANY marks, abrasions, scuffs, nicks anywhere my pair seem to have blessed (must be the perfection that runs in the family). I have decided now to stop listening to them altogether and simply spend all of my time looking at them, admiring them while I use other sonically inferior phones for my listening displeasure. After all it IS the visual not the aural - right?
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Well, lets take the two scenarios we have here.
Yours are perfect, some are not, like mine. If you take care of yours and don't abuse them, don't get any rubs, dings, or scratches on them. Then yours will be worth more than mine if resale were to become necessary. Basically a lot of Grados are sold as A-Stock but are really B-Stock. I'll have to disclose all the bangs, nicks, rubs, etc.
I don't know if you buy 2nd hand gear, I do. I take off for every frayed cord or dinged cup. That effects the value. It detracts from new. I suspect if you buy 2nd hand gear you do the same. If I buy a car and it has scratched paint, sun faded upholstery and dinged fenders, those blemishes count off the price I will pay. It is still a car, as you would be quick to point out. But when I go to sell that beat up car, rest assured, the next buyer will want to discount those detractions. Only in the AudioPhool world is this even a conversation. Would you accept a Mercedes, BMW, or even a Honda as new if the fender was creased? It's ludicrous to defend slipshod work.
My choices?
1) Send them back
2) Keep them
3) Sell them now or later and disclose that mine are Facto Dinged like a bunch of them out there.
They do sound great and my plans are to keep them. However, it remains
a shame that the company:
Can't spell
Can't engrave and QC their work
Can't Glue something together without slopping Glue about
Can't work with delicate surfaces without banging them about
Can't resolve a problem without making it worse
I do enjoy listening to them though...
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