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Headphoneus Supremus
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Ok, so I know I have read about the idea of a community headphone, a time share headphone so to speak. Just like all those public bikes they painted Orange in San Fran. or New York or where ever it was, they all were missing never to be returned again in a matter of hours, but nevermind that trivial fact.
So I am considering sending out a pair of SR60s through the Head-Fi community. There are all kinds of problems with this idea, but that is why I'm just talking about it now and seeing what everyone thinks.
Basicly it goes something like this.
The SR60s would travel around by hand-to-hand transfer, that is there would be no shipping them around, rather meeting person to person to transfer their possesion. I am guessing that the number of Head-Fiers around the country is distributed well enough that the lack of public or private shipping service should be workaroundable. The idea is that you put the effort into meeting the member of the community who has them have a little chat, maybe make a new friend, and then take the SR60 home with you for a while to demo and then pass it on to the next person and in the process meet another community friend.
Of course there is the issue of how long can one person keep them, well I don't know how about a minimum of 3 days and a maximum of however long it takes someone to request them.
Also the issue of how to get them in the hands of only trust worthy memebers, well this is where the idea seems to lose plausability. If we limit the trading of the SR60 to Head-Fiers with so much feedback or posts or something then a lot of the community is going to be left out. I suppose we could take down name and address and the like and post it in a thread showing the progression of the can, but addresses are easily enough faked or lied. I suppose there could be a system where the person that has them is given the phone # and address of the next person and they verify the # to that address by phone book or internet, its a posibility.
Also I would think the person wanting the cans next should have the obligation to pick them up, rather than the person that has taken possesion of them. Mostly because the person having them being obligated to take them to the next person begs the problem of continualy delaying the transfer if they claim they are "busy," where as this way the pickeruper has to make the time. Of course the haver could always claim they aren't going to be home ever...ahhh
So much crap to work through, is it worth it, should it be tried? I definilty need some opinions on this. I know it isn't going to work, but I want it to so bad.
P.S. What if the pickeruper had to make a small paypal deposit in an account that would be donated to Head-Fi after a while. that way each person would have a small investment in the cans and their continued trade, hopefully this would ensure some kind of responsibility, or maybe a payment big enough to cover the cans that would be returned by an administrator of the account as soon as the cans had made their next move, with the option or manditory implementation of a donation as well?
Oh, and then there is the problem of what to do to cover the situation when they break?
So complicated, but it sounds so fun.
So I am considering sending out a pair of SR60s through the Head-Fi community. There are all kinds of problems with this idea, but that is why I'm just talking about it now and seeing what everyone thinks.
Basicly it goes something like this.
The SR60s would travel around by hand-to-hand transfer, that is there would be no shipping them around, rather meeting person to person to transfer their possesion. I am guessing that the number of Head-Fiers around the country is distributed well enough that the lack of public or private shipping service should be workaroundable. The idea is that you put the effort into meeting the member of the community who has them have a little chat, maybe make a new friend, and then take the SR60 home with you for a while to demo and then pass it on to the next person and in the process meet another community friend.
Of course there is the issue of how long can one person keep them, well I don't know how about a minimum of 3 days and a maximum of however long it takes someone to request them.
Also the issue of how to get them in the hands of only trust worthy memebers, well this is where the idea seems to lose plausability. If we limit the trading of the SR60 to Head-Fiers with so much feedback or posts or something then a lot of the community is going to be left out. I suppose we could take down name and address and the like and post it in a thread showing the progression of the can, but addresses are easily enough faked or lied. I suppose there could be a system where the person that has them is given the phone # and address of the next person and they verify the # to that address by phone book or internet, its a posibility.
Also I would think the person wanting the cans next should have the obligation to pick them up, rather than the person that has taken possesion of them. Mostly because the person having them being obligated to take them to the next person begs the problem of continualy delaying the transfer if they claim they are "busy," where as this way the pickeruper has to make the time. Of course the haver could always claim they aren't going to be home ever...ahhh
So much crap to work through, is it worth it, should it be tried? I definilty need some opinions on this. I know it isn't going to work, but I want it to so bad.
P.S. What if the pickeruper had to make a small paypal deposit in an account that would be donated to Head-Fi after a while. that way each person would have a small investment in the cans and their continued trade, hopefully this would ensure some kind of responsibility, or maybe a payment big enough to cover the cans that would be returned by an administrator of the account as soon as the cans had made their next move, with the option or manditory implementation of a donation as well?
Oh, and then there is the problem of what to do to cover the situation when they break?
So complicated, but it sounds so fun.
