[CherryBomb]

What do you guys think? How'd this buyer do?

Joseph Grado HP 1000 Signature Headphones HP-1 - eBay (item 220492803668 end time Oct-17-09 17:00:11 PDT)

 

[charliex]

Beautiful set of Joe grados - and the buyer literally stole them for that price!

 

[Uncle Erik]

Nice pair! The price is a little stiff - several pairs have gone for $1,200-$1,500 recently. If you're not hung up on the lettering (and man, does it come off easily) then you can get a pair for listening for much less. I'd rather listen to them than fret over accidentally scraping something off.

 

[immtbiker]

$1600-1800 is the going rate for a vintage pair of a cup of Joe.

 

[ivanrocks321]

damn i bidded $1700 on those! somebody sniped me last min!

 

[vcoheda]

way too much for that pair.

 

[Sherwood]

A little steep, I think, but quite possibly worth it, depending on who the buyer is. Tough break on getting outbid, Ivan -- maybe you should do some sniping yourself?

 

[jjinh]

those look nice. they dont come up for sale in that condition very often nowadays

 

[estreeter]

At the current exchange rate between the AUD and the USD, those Grados are still around AUD $700 cheaper than our one-and-only Grado distributor wants for the PS1000. We'll be at parity with the USD by years end - interesting times ahead.

 

[achristilaw]

WOOF...great little phone...not that great!

 

[krmathis]

A bit expensive I would say, especially for a pair without all the lettering intact.
But then again the HP1 does not come up for sale that often...

 

[CherryBomb]

Thanks, all.

 

[kelvinz]

considering the number of better sounding headphones on the market. It seems silly to pay that much for a HP1 unless you are buying to collect rather than listen

 

[Seamaster]

People trying to worship that phone or what? Are they worhty that much sound wise?

 

[CherryBomb]

Its a rare headphone, and a collector's item. Maybe not worth the price to some, but well worth it to collectors. The lettering is not perfect, but it in much better condition than most i have seen. So, I would say that this is a real nice collectors item, and probably a great sounding headphone to boot. It will only appreciate in value over time.

Another interesting point is that the listing mentions Joe Grados offer to personally service the headphones. I wonder what that is about, and how common that is? Very interesting. It also appears to state that Joe does a modification to the headphones to bring it up to current spec (whatever that means), and that Joe allegedly says the results of the modification is "incredible." That is interesting stuff.