Chinese Grandpa Smashed the Orpheus Accidentally at the Shanghai Meeting

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  1. mtoc

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    "I ain't do this on purpose!" He told everybody around him. And almost at the same time, he just broke one of the tube in the HEV90 with two big fingers ("I ain't do this on purpose either! I just, just wanna try to pick the whole damn amp up through that tube, ya know, it looks heavy...heavy things make me very curious.")

    (No pics of the amp with the broken tube, it was been covered soon after the grandpa used his magic.)

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    Well then... that's a couple mortgage payments worth of repairs right there...
     
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    Maybe he was Dr. Fang Bian's grandpa?
     
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    "I ain't do this on purpose" .......
     
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    Ouch... was it a showcase unit by Sennheiser or personally owned? I wonder how he was able to break the tubes which are individually protected with tube cages.
     
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    Pics, or it didn't happen.
     
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    If I had a dollar for every time an ignorant Mainlander wrecked something, I still wouldn't be able to pay for repairing that Orpheus.
     
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    Considering how you use the term Mainlander, I assume you're from Taiwan or Hong Kong?
     
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    Wow. Well, I'll buy the damaged goods if they sell them cheap enough.
     
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    Staff: "Grandpa, looking for amps?"

    Grandpa: "Yes, I'm on a hunt for one".

    Staff: "What type?"

    Grandpa: "A transformer".

    Grandpa laughs, the staff laughs, the Orpheus laughs. Grandpa smashes the Orpheus. All hail Megatron.
     
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    Looks like just the headband broke, maybe it's still fixable? Orpheuses don't have the most durable headbands and I remember reading owners having to replace them because the foam is rotting or whatnot.
     
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    Actually the grandpa felt a bit angry (don't know why) when guys told him he doesn't need to pay, and then he left quickly, like nothing happned.
     
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    Holy hell, the owner must be the nicest dude on Earth.
     
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    Remember these were the model for the HD 580/600/650 housing where the headband is the weak point of the headphone. Probably an easy fix. The plastic headband will just be priced at a third of the value of a new Orpheus as Sennheiser loves money.

    The tube though...
     
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    He must have saw Jude coming & ran away while he still had a job.
     
    Last edited: Apr 10, 2016
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    He's Austrian.
     
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    Let's just have someone at Head-Fi transplant the driver into a HD580.

    ** shows self out **
     
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    This was a total setup. Obviously the owner of said Orpheus had enemies, perhaps a neighbor who was annoyed at Orpheus owner's dog for barking all night. Or perhaps neighbor was simply envious. Neighbor hired old man to perform limited destruction of Orpheus. Yes, Chinese people do stuff like that, even in Taiwan.
     
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    Wow damn, sounds like those Taiwan dramas are real after all.
     

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