can’t you stay awake until midnight?
come on, your life choices are really starting to affect us here. it’s time we do something…
…we have to fix this…
@outz I’m awake at midnight, but I’m at work… doing work stuff, so I don’t always get to check at midnight. The pause for the morning crowd helps people like me too.
@outz As a card carrying member of “Morning Availability Club”, your sheer angst brings me much joy. Perhaps if you were quicker on the trigger last night you might have gotten one? Either way,
Just say no. Audio Technica makes good headphones. These are not them. These are discontinued by the manufacturer after only a couple of years for good reason. $15 is cheap–about half what they typically sell for these days. But they’re not good.
Cons:
Super cheap construction.
Uncomfortable.
Bad sound profile: OK bass, recessed mids and high. If you think music should go thumpa thumpa and if you think low end Beats are audiophile, maybe you’ll like these. All others will know they suck.
@mrapathy We pay for that right. I don’t know if I get my money out of it or not. But I do get 10% and free shipping over at Morningsave which I have purchased from twice in the last month, so I am ok with the $5/mo.
BTW, Morningsave - my new Wok is awesome and was a great deal.
@zippyus Sounds like that $15 price may be about right. I’m still curious about how those 55ohm impedance sound, as @Achromatter noted. Did I say that right?
It looks like meh is officially throwing in the towel with regards of selling anything on Sunday. Only 415 total for a gross of $6924? It seems like they’d lose less money by shutting down the servers for the day to save the energy and avoiding having to pay staff to pack and ship them. I know @snapster loves sell-outs, but at what cost?
Disclaimer: I don’t know jack shit about retail and @snapster made millions selling a retail site to Bezos.
Specs
What’s in the Box?
1x Headphones
1x Storage bag
Pictures
Options
Included with blue
Head
Talk through this bit and our voice goes through the end
It folds
Retail box
Included with red
Another headMICROPHOOOONEPacks flat
MICROPHOOOONE
Packs flat
Cardboard box included
Price Comparison
$74.99 List, $29.99 at Amazon
Warranty
2 Year Audio Technica
Estimated Delivery
Monday, July 13th - Friday, July 17th
No!
Holla if ya hear me!
Sounds like a good deal?
Cords?
Sounds right – what a “gas”! “Fuel” for thought eh meh?
Bigly
Sonic Fuel? Wouldn’t this be more of like a Sonic exhaust?
Color choices are Auburn Tigers or Alabama Crimson Tide.
Cognoscenti, weigh in—will these be unpleasantly tight on the large-noggined among us?
@dave - blue sold out so quickly!! is that all there is??
I thought since the new iPhone doesn’t have an audio jack it was against the law to sell wired headphones anymore.
@elimanningface au contraire, apple has a dongle for you…
@elimanningface I commute daily in SF and have in 3 weeks of actually paying attention have so far spotted only 3 people using airpods
http://www.audio-technica.com/cms/headphones/08a5ba2212824793/index.html
Only 92 to sell before it was paused? Sad!
I bet Sonic the Hedgehog bought all the blue ones.
I went in for two red and a blue but left with only two red just to see them now paused.
we need to have a talk with those mornin’ crowd people.
@outz And so it begins… once again!
hey, mornin’ crowd people!!!
can’t you stay awake until midnight?
come on, your life choices are really starting to affect us here. it’s time we do something…
…we have to fix this…
@outz I’m awake at midnight, but I’m at work… doing work stuff, so I don’t always get to check at midnight. The pause for the morning crowd helps people like me too.
@outz As a card carrying member of “Morning Availability Club”, your sheer angst brings me much joy. Perhaps if you were quicker on the trigger last night you might have gotten one? Either way,
@outz Yeah, this “morning crowd” can succ me.
Anyone find reviews on this? I was searching for reviews until the things sold out.
@Dizavid Please refer to my reply above this. It’s a beautiful morning
@Dizavid So instead buy first, search for reviews, cancel (within the hour after buying - you do so on your orders page)… problem solved.
ii beg the meh admin to accidentally unpause the next 2 mins. and the pause again
These look FUGS
55 Ohms???
Are you ohmophobic?
like-reckless-beaver
Had to set my alarm for these. Luckily the color I’d decided on was the only one left: red.
@Circuitbrkr I did the same thing
Just say no. Audio Technica makes good headphones. These are not them. These are discontinued by the manufacturer after only a couple of years for good reason. $15 is cheap–about half what they typically sell for these days. But they’re not good.
Cons:
Super cheap construction.
Uncomfortable.
Bad sound profile: OK bass, recessed mids and high. If you think music should go thumpa thumpa and if you think low end Beats are audiophile, maybe you’ll like these. All others will know they suck.
This pause and then they’re gone in an hour crap is annoying. If you don’t have enough to sell go to work and get something else.
/giphy gratifying-mechanical-wave
Wanted blue but that was “sold out” so went for the red ones. We all know the real deal, Meh is holding out for the VMPs.
@mrapathy The holdback is only by quantity, not item types. If red was all that was left, that all that VMP would get at 4pm.
@mrapathy We pay for that right. I don’t know if I get my money out of it or not. But I do get 10% and free shipping over at Morningsave which I have purchased from twice in the last month, so I am ok with the $5/mo.
BTW, Morningsave - my new Wok is awesome and was a great deal.
Non-replaceable cord? Meh, even if I could get a red pair with VMP and like low-end Audio Technicas.
So has anyone found a review for these yet?
@Dizavid http://www.head-fi.org/t/722140/new-audio-technica-portable-headphones-ath-ax1-ath-ax3-and-ath-ax5-discussion-thread
@zippyus Sounds like that $15 price may be about right. I’m still curious about how those 55ohm impedance sound, as @Achromatter noted. Did I say that right?
And they’re gooooooooooone. That didn’t take long.
It looks like meh is officially throwing in the towel with regards of selling anything on Sunday. Only 415 total for a gross of $6924? It seems like they’d lose less money by shutting down the servers for the day to save the energy and avoiding having to pay staff to pack and ship them. I know @snapster loves sell-outs, but at what cost?
Disclaimer: I don’t know jack shit about retail and @snapster made millions selling a retail site to Bezos.
@SSteve I do remember them saying that Sunday is the lowest traffic days. Maybe they do it on purpose.
@RiotDemon Every time I see your username I hear “rashomon” in my head.
@SSteve oh