My gosh, will it never end? This HD800 thing is reminding me of all of the HF-1 threads. I created an HF-1 index thread at one point but then gave up after there were (no lie) more than 100 HF-1 threads of every imaginable variety.
If you don't believe me, here it is:
http://www.head-fi.org/forums/f4/hf-...thread-135168/ (Sorry folks, it really stinks, but this was all pre-crash so most of the links don't work anymore. In many cases, I was playing around with the descriptions in the links, but I can assure you (when the links were working) that all of the threads linked in the index thread were true blue HF-1 threads).
By the time I gave up tracking the HF-1 threads (it was a lot of work), they had begun to die down considerably. I'm sure there have been a couple dozen more, but I can't be bothered to update that thread.
My guess is that we won't have quite as many HD800 threads because the price point is $1,400 rather than $200 so there won't be nearly as many HD800 owners out there to spawn new threads.
In any case, I'm not picking on this thread in particular, but do see some strong analogies to what was happening way back then.