the people say everything and the opposite of everything. Like i wrote in the past, 009 is Lucifer of the headphones. Fell from heaven to hell
The 009/S is at its lowpoint right now in terms of desirability, plus the general headphone market seems down (a reflection of the general economic situation I guess as compared to like the printing money days just past).
Look at stuff from the early 2000s on the Omega or R10 or even HE90, they weren't as respected at that point and their status seems to have grown the longer they stayed out of production, and the prices increased (they got rid of the old for sale forum but if you were here on head-fi in like 2004 you could pick up R10s and Omegas for like 2000 bucks or less lol)
It will be interesting to see what happens the 009, I do think it will be considered a classic eventually, if it already isn't considered one, but it will never get the treatment that the Omega or R10 or HE90 or whatever got at least price wise, because those phones came at a time where there wasn't a market for such ridiculously priced headphones, and they sold in the hundreds of units. Same with maybe not as highly regarded phones at the time that still had low volumes like the Qualia and HP1000 and L3000 which skyrocketed pricewise because there weren't many units made. Even for the later 007, the MK1 sold in far less quantities than the MK2, especially those 70xxx units (I guess now the 71xxx are the big things reputation wise?), and have held their prices and started to creep up.
There are just too many 009s around, there will probably be too many X9000s around soon enough as well. They may get a classic treatment, but I doubt they'll ever be the big money collector items like the nineties phones.
Nice time to buy a 009 though lol (saying that as someone that just picked one up). It is the culimation of New STAX before the Edifier sale and clearly serves as the baseline for their future phone development, so I'm happy enough to own one at a far more reasonable price than $5250 or even $3000ish. Hope the hype around the new ones is legit, let's see.