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I'm in Tokyo to finish a new VAMP, I'll catch up soon and I am meeting w Anakchan tonight for dinner. . . . apologies for shipping anxieties, please understand we are negative units from those produced vs the demands and they shipped as many as they could last Friday as we got the boom mics in.
I'm surprised no one has commented on the boom mic. It seems to be a definite extra like the shareplay cable, and the non-solo gamers among us ought to be rejoicing. You're not going to see extras like that with a Sennheiser or Sony circumnaural marketed to urban auds.
(And what's that about dinner with AnakChan?)
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I for Juan love the photos of Jude's unboxing. The orange accents created by the cables, and the heavily grain-diffused shine of the black hardware, create precisely the effect I pictured. They throw that murderbox-minimal shape I hoped they would:
(Murderbox) (M100)
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Sometimes I get anxiety to check the forums as I care TOO much about each and every person's opinion! I know I won't be able to please every person, every time, but if we can get the majority of the time we are good. . . . After a few more verdicts are in, I'll press the green button to make the second round. There are only about 200 total units in the wild and they are harder to find than the fountain of youth.
I'm not going to ask a CEO about the status of my order, let alone individual parts in my order -- especially when said CEO is traveling through entirely different countries than the site of operations'. People asking about their brushed metal shields might want to call customer service in L.A.
Having to wait for the next shipment date doesn't mean that certain people on this thread were left out. It means that V-Moda were and are being careful to include everyone. Amazingly, they want us all to have the same basic extras and options -- even the extras that hadn't been spelled out. Most companies would have simply cut off the second hundred people who ordered, but that didn't happen to us.
Increased possibility of delays and other variables are reasons you don't normally see companies catering publicly to individuals on this scale -- not on the fly and not subject to customers'
manufacturing requests.
Something for people to remember if they want these kinds of customizations and extras next time, whether the company's V-Moda or Audeze:
No one wants to go through the added pain of offering a preorder with extras if customers are going to be more impatient and less appreciative than if they'd chosen to buy stock headphones offered on the market two months later.
Studio musicians are acutely aware of this, because session guys who act annoyed or demanding aren't usually asked back unless they're as successful as the artists with whom they're playing. Even then, I've heard producers say
never again. And if musicians prove difficult but are still used again for practical reasons, then
the terms of the arrangement often become less juicy.
Mr. Kolton approached this entire project like a perfectionist, asking for input from his customer base personally and actually following their advice. Isn't that what hobbyists on Head-fi usually like best?
). Very New York indeed 
I am definitely that person from Queens rockin' my V-MODAs, that's for sure.
