[R-Audiohead]

Excited indeed.
 
My wallet is doomed.  Hopefully they'll be available in the US from Amazon so I can at least pay shipping for piece of mind to demo

 

[nikp]

Interesting. Good luck Shure, we wish you a pleasant journey ahead. 

 

[TheWuss]

I hold out great hope that this headphone is an open sounding srh840.
I absolutely love the 840. And i still listen to it nearly every day.
I own tons of headphones, including LCD-2, T1, HD800, and others. But cant always listen to open cans.
But there is something relaxing and smooth about the 840 that allows me to listen to less than ideal tracks (rock) without harshness.
I will be frank: I am not insane, but the 840 is my favorite middle range headphone. The fact that it is closed is of no consequence in the battle. It might not produce the open sound of the k701, but it images more precisely, and produces a more natural sound.
All the middle range open cans have serious shortcomings. The 650. the k701. The dt880.
But the 840 walks the line of "first, do no wrong", in lieu of trying to wow the listener with some particular quality and failing miserably in some other sector. And this is greatly appreciated by me.
(i could go on and on about errors of commission vs errors of omission.)

So how might the srh1840 sound? As someone said earlier in the thread, that is the thousand dollar question. Personally, I would love to see an affordable open can whose motto is "first do no wrong".

 

[bcasey25raptor]

Does anyone know why shure released these in asia first when their an american company?

 

[Blue Boat]

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Does anyone know why shure released these in asia first when their an american company?

 
Bigger market? It's also classier to release things in Japan. 
 
 

 

[bcasey25raptor]

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Bigger market? It's also classier to release things in Japan. 
 
 

Bigger market perhaps but i'm pretty sure most people who would buy them would be in north america or europe. Just saying.

 

[Satya]

Construction details are here in the pictures (might wanna use Google translate for the text):
  http://www.phileweb.com/news/d-av/201112/06/29920.html
The poster estimates 10,000 yen for the SRH1840, and 40,000 for the SRH1440.  If he had his number switched around, that's $515 for the SRH1840 and $129 for the SRH1440.  However, if he meant to say that the SRH1840 is 100,000 yen, that's $1,290: I'm hoping it's the former!
 
Here's an interview with Peter Barkan:
  http://www.phileweb.com/review/article/201112/06/414.html
If my Google Japanese is correct, he liked them better than the SRH940s for jazz, folk and bluegrass. When listening to Dylan, my guess on the translation: "I was surprised at the vivid voice. It was as if Dylan was there and I was not. I was conscious like never before of certain sounds, such as what sounded like hitting a tack with a hammer: the upright piano in the back containing a thin, clear sound. I've heard this song for decades, and this is the first I had heard that sound. With such a wide soundstage, you will often hear the outline of the instrument. "
 
So, assuming their list price is $515, and street price is $400 or so, I will definitely be interested.  Other sites say 2012 for actual availability

 

[Satya]

Another translator corrects the text translation: yen price is 70,000, which puts the SRH1840 at around $900, while the SRH1440 would be about $500, with both of those hopefully significantly less once it hits the streets.  Ouch - my wallet is nervous...

 

[bcasey25raptor]

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Another translator corrects the text translation: yen price is 70,000, which puts the SRH1840 at around $900, while the SRH1440 would be about $500, with both of those hopefully significantly less once it hits the streets.  Ouch - my wallet is nervous...

Things are more expensive in japan guys. Expect it to be much cheaper in north america.
 
 
Read this
 
http://translate.google.com/translate?sl=auto&tl=en&js=n&prev=_t&hl=zh-TW&ie=UTF-8&layout=2&eotf=1&u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.shure.co.jp%2Fja%2Fcompany%2Fpress%2Fpress_releases%2F2011%2F20111206-srh1840-srh1440&act=url
 
I hope that link worked.

 

[rhythmdevils]

The 1440 looks like an open back Beats.  Bleh.  Way way way overdesigned.  someone needs to hire some (new) designers.  Hopefully they're at least putting some engineering into the acoustics.  The fact that the baffle and pads on the 1840 look suspiciously similar to the SRH940 gives me pause. 

 

[Shubar]

I reckon the 1840 looks sweet!!!

 

[DVDRey]

They laughed at me when I spoke to a minimum of 500 euros

 
1840 is beautiful, but i'm afraid that the headband may not be confortable.

 

[ac500]

If it's $700, fine, but it had better be worth it. That's getting dangerously close to LCD-2 / HE500 etc. territory. For that price, it can't be a specialized headphone like the SRH940, it will have to absolutely shine from lowest bass response through upper treble.

 

[Blue Boat]

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If it's $700, fine, but it had better be worth it. That's getting dangerously close to LCD-2 / HE500 etc. territory. For that price, it can't be a specialized headphone like the SRH940, it will have to absolutely shine from lowest bass response through upper treble.

Law of diminishing returns, me thinks.
 
If they are indeed priced at $700, then a good comparison would probably be higher end Beyers. 

 

[ac500]

Diminishing returns actually proves my point if anything. $700 is close to LCD-2 level pricing, so due to law of diminishing returns, the extra $250 for an LCD-2 should have negligible sound quality difference at most. Therefore if they sell at $700, it's going to have to be awfully close to LCD-2 class of sound quality for it to be worth it.