raiser roofer: There quite a few manufacturers on Head-Fi that have developed new headphones recently. You'll notice, most often with the small manfacturers, that they tend to have delay after delay after delay. The reason for this is, they usually have to coordinate manfacturing or acqusition of parts from half a dozen different companies just to build their products. Have a delay from one, or a single issue with your own work and everything falls apart. The change of specs, error or fault in a single part can screw up an entire design. I put in to purchase the HD-800s from Sennheiser when they were first available for pre-order, and THEY were delayed due to production issues and Sennheiser is not a small company at all. It's easy to forget these types of headphones are not just off-the-shelf stock which can be sent in a couple of days, but entirely new designs which have to be developed, sufficient part supply acquired, manufactured, tested, refined when issues are found, maybe re-designed again and re-manufactured sometimes. While Sennheiser has a team to do this, Rhydon is a single guy who also has a full-time job to take care of while he designs and makes headphones.
So far, I've waited about 2 years for, respectively: the HD-800s, HF-2s, V1 Magnums, V2 Magnums, Pico Slim and LCD-2s, all of which were delayed, sometimes multiple times, and all were very worth the wait.
