[Xymordos]

70mm driver sounds like a power hungry one to me...and Sony's MRSP are always overpriced. Streetprice is generally quite low.
Japan Amazon goes for like $200?

 

[idletime1213]

These would be great guilty pleasure 'phones for me, if they have decent mids. Not even great ones, just not too recessed.

 

[DjAmTraX]

I can't read Japanese.  Are they "in-stock" at Amazon JP?

 

[TEHk NiNE]

 

I know pretty much nothing about amps...
Would a portable amp be enough to power these?

 

[Ouspensky]

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I know pretty much nothing about amps...
Would a portable amp be enough to power these?

I use a basic cmoy with the xb700 when out from home, and it does a good job with bass bost on my ipod classic 160gb. at home my old maratz reciever really takes them to the extreme

 

[reiserFS]

The cheapest XB1000 I've found is roughly 20k JPY. Looks like they're in stock, yes. Amazon Japan does ship internationally, prepare to pay 40$ for shipping though.
 
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I can't read Japanese.  Are they "in-stock" at Amazon JP?

 

[RPGWiZaRD]

Any1 gonna pull the trigger and order from amazon.jp? Can always use google translate or something.
 
But it looks like the street price for the cheaper sites like I predicted gonna be around $250 USD or possibly 220~$230 or so at the very cheapest places and probably ~200 EUR in europe for these which is ofc a lot better than the $377 reported everywhere which I always knew would be far from accurate. Still in this price class it's gonna have some quite tough competitors SQ-wise, Denon D2000 would be one for example, hopefully it can deliver from that point of view too and not just bass. I hope the pricing is more of a result based on how great they think it sounds like rather than covering up for R&D costs as at pricetag like ~$150 this headphone had sold like butter probably (as long as it actually sounded great and delivers the bass that people seem to expect).
 
I don't know but I have a feeling we pay like possibly $50 just for "style" this time around compared to XB500/700 which just seem very aggressively priced. Luckily style doesn't come as an $150~200 "extra" factor you pay for as on Beats by Dr. Dre.

 

[sokolov91]

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The cheapest XB1000 I've found is roughly 20k JPY. Looks like they're in stock, yes. Amazon Japan does ship internationally, prepare to pay 40$ for shipping though.
 
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I can't read Japanese.  Are they "in-stock" at Amazon JP?

That's like saying prepare to pay 2$ at the dollar store lmao.  Not bad for shipping from Japan... hell to ship Cans to the states Xpresspost it costs that much.

 

[Ouspensky]

I love a can with lots of bass, but I would not pay more than $150.00 for the xb1000....a price tag bigger than that would be out of my budget at this moment

 

[haloxt]

Too bad most high spending audiophiles don't want bass headphones. I won't get this because I think the 2hz might pose health risks , but I have high hopes it can reproduce real bass, not the boom boom of low quality bass headphones.

 

[sokolov91]

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Too bad most high spending audiophiles don't want bass headphones. I won't get this because I think the 2hz might pose health risks , but I have high hopes it can reproduce real bass, not the boom boom of low quality bass headphones.

OT but have you tried the LCD-2 or HE-6?
 
The LCD-2 can do 2hz at 15 watts

if you are looking for serious, sublime quality bass.

 

[idletime1213]

Come to think of it, $300 is pretty expensive for something that delivers JUST bass. I can get the PRO 900 for $20 more, which does more things than just bass, and the D2000 for $100 less, which has nice sound stage and timbre. Hopefully, it's a bit more versatile than that.

 

[aznsniper911]

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Any1 gonna pull the trigger and order from amazon.jp? Can always use google translate or something.
 
But it looks like the street price for the cheaper sites like I predicted gonna be around $250 USD or possibly 220~$230 or so at the very cheapest places and probably ~200 EUR in europe for these which is ofc a lot better than the $377 reported everywhere which I always knew would be far from accurate. Still in this price class it's gonna have some quite tough competitors SQ-wise, Denon D2000 would be one for example, hopefully it can deliver from that point of view too and not just bass. I hope the pricing is more of a result based on how great they think it sounds like rather than covering up for R&D costs as at pricetag like ~$150 this headphone had sold like butter probably (as long as it actually sounded great and delivers the bass that people seem to expect).
 
I don't know but I have a feeling we pay like possibly $50 just for "style" this time around compared to XB500/700 which just seem very aggressively priced. Luckily style doesn't come as an $150~200 "extra" factor you pay for as on Beats by Dr. Dre.

Oh Amazon.jp ships to USA? If so then I'll defintely get one. Been dying for this.
Edit: So I try to buy it but Amazon.jp won't ship it to my house, gives me an error that it cannot ship internationally.
 

 
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I have zero doubts about the need for a dedicated amp for these, since the xb700 are quite weak without one. the wait is killing me

 
A little offtopic but any suggestions for a portable amp for this headphone or the XB700 with an iPhone/iPod touch?

 

 

[DjAmTraX]

Amazon JP won't ship to U.S. I called them.

 

[Mad Lust Envy]

God, I wanna try these out sooooo badly, if only out of mere curiosity. If they are better than the XB700 as a whole, I will be very happy about these. I just hope the bass is like the D7000, which hits incredibly low but doesn't trample on the mids. I know I'm expecting much, but I could only hope.