I don't want to get involved in speculation unless it's fun rather than prescriptive, but since you inadvertently involved hoary old Scrypt and his withered buttocks, here's my best impression of an Elizabethan Nick Nolte:
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Agreed - we already established this. For those who don't get it, let me be a bit more blunt. (Remember, blunt =|= rude)
ALL MODELS CALLED "V-MODA VTF-100" ARE PRE-RELEASE/PRE-PRODUCTION UNITS. THESE UNITS COME WITH:
- M-100
- Free Extra Shields
- Free Engraving
- Extra Accessories (A la Matte ver. Special "Extra"). . . .
Hopefully this helps... Again, I am not being rude, and nor am I angry. I just want to make this clear to those who are confused and causing more confusion.
We haven't
established what you've just reiterated above, but I do
agree that what you've reiterated is
highly probable. It's
likely we'll receive extra shields, as people did during the M-80 pre-release. However, I haven't read anything that proves it's
certain, hence my hesitation to believe.
The designations
4 and
5 on the order form also reinforce the very likely idea that the custom shields will be included with the standard ones. Then again, what if the custom
color applies not to the custom
shield but the
non-engraved one? What if Val has his own special color picked out for the engraved shields? Not true-bloody likely, of course, but still possible. It's fun to relinquish control sometimes -- especially over things you can't control.
It's also
not certain that absolutely everyone will get the extras (or at least the
same extras) for the simple reason Val runs out of stuff. Again, that happened last time with the M-80s -- people received different extras depending on what was available and when they ordered. It might not happen again but, then again, it might.
The whole package looks fun, and it will be interesting to see whether the same customizable options will be offered to the public (at first) beyond the custom shields. The CEO gets to decide on what the strategy will be, and it seems as if he hasn't revealed everything -- where would the glee be in that? The best way not to paint oneself into a corner is to stay open.
And to those who keep talking about how the VTFs are a bigger deal than the custom Grados and other such offerings: To a person whose first interest is in audio, the Grado HF-1s and HF-2s were a much bigger deal than this because they were one-of-a-kind headphones in terms of
sound and materials.
That's why those headphones were a must-buy for so many veteran members, while these -- i.e., the VTFs -- will simply be fun for many of us, including veteran sound engineers and studio musicians (like me). If you doubt it, ask Joker.
Well, either way, I do agree, I do want some official information about these.
