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Posted by nutsan on Jan-11-2007 12:13:

i was gonna get mine from there too! but didnt want to wait!

Posted by simonbostock on Jan-11-2007 12:18:

This one is available on ebay - i ordered one yesterday and he's only got one left. Link

Posted by nutsan on Jan-11-2007 14:13:

i cant remember where i got mine from? culd of been millenium music

Posted by eRRaTiK on Jan-13-2007 05:52:

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Originally posted by Fledz
God damn I hate shiiping. It can sometimes cost more than the damn product itself!

solution... move countries

Posted by Fledz on Jan-13-2007 06:00:

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Originally posted by eRRaTiK
solution... move countries

I am, just not in the next 3 years

Posted by TrickDaddE on Jan-13-2007 21:23:

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Originally posted by DigiNut
That price is a fantastic ripoff. Normally $250? Maybe at that particular store... the list price is $150 and most stores are selling it for $100 or less because it's a discontinued model.

You're far better off with the K240S (the "industry standard"), it has better frequency response and will last longer, but is the same design in most other respects. What's more, it sells for about the same price - it's $100 at zzounds.

Hey Digi!!! Is there no where locally to buy them. I phones this place for a dieferent iquiry and they said the do no ship up here?

Posted by DigiNut on Jan-13-2007 22:06:

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Originally posted by TrickDaddE
Hey Digi!!! Is there no where locally to buy them. I phones this place for a dieferent iquiry and they said the do no ship up here?

Hm, I always thought they shipped to Canada, but apparently not... I've always just had 'em shipped to a relative in the US to get around Customs.

Anyway, just hit up Long & McQuade, I got my K240DF from there for about $150 - that was almost a year ago, and I'm fairly certain they had the K240 Studio as well.

Posted by TrickDaddE on Jan-14-2007 01:46:

Thanks man!

Posted by djkoso on Jan-14-2007 09:50:

take K240S, its very good

Posted by Fledz on Jan-15-2007 00:45:

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Originally posted by simonbostock
IMusician is selling K240S's for �67UKP / $130USD / $166AUD (conversions from Yahoo Finance) - although there's a 2-3 week wait. Link

I ended up buying a new pair from Ebay for �83UKP including delivery as I couldn't wait 2-3 weeks.

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Hi Steve,

we ship internationally via Parcelforce and the price would be an astonishing �55GBP. This service takes usually 7 days.

http://www.audioproducts.com.au/brands/akg.html are the Australian distributor for AKG, with our shipping costs in mind it may be cheaper buy there.

Regards,

Nic Hughes

iMusician Customer Services

Nice to see an honest salesman. Too bad the shipping is so damn expensive. No wonder everything here costs so much.

I've sent about 20 emails to local distributors just now so let's see if anyone has a good deal.

Posted by skot_e on Jan-15-2007 07:28:

That's about $140 shipping. That's nuts!
Customs wouldn't matter as you can get upto $1000 without paying any fees.

Posted by Fledz on Jan-15-2007 12:04:

Sweet, sending emails really pays off!

There's a store in Sydney which will sell them to me for $220 and I can pick them up so there are no other fees.

I also got an email from a Melbourne based company that have a warehouse here but I can't pick them up. They would need to ship them which adds an extra $11. I asked them if they can beat the other stores price so maybe they might. I could get away with $200 possibly.

I'm quite happy though. Both are based here so incase there are any warranty issues, it will be easy to get them handled as opposed to shipping the headphones back overseas.

And $220 is the cheapest I could find overseas anyway (US$169 including delivery)

The only bad thing is I haven't listened to them yet, but I haven't seen anyone say anything bad about their sound, only a few reviews saying that some models broke easily. Oh well, I can always listen to them at that store and if I hate them, just not buy them.

Cheers for the help guys. I should have a shiny new set of K240S by the end of the week for a reasonable price. Considering that they retail at up to $350 here, $220 is rather good in my books

Posted by simonbostock on Jan-15-2007 14:35:

I'm still waiting for my pair from ebay... maybe this week sometime.

Posted by DigiNut on Jan-16-2007 02:31:

Don't worry, you'll be happy with the K240S assuming you're actually looking for a studio monitor - it's the industry standard for a reason, it's pretty much the most accurate you can get in that price range (even in higher price ranges).

Now, it's not going to make bad music sound good, but I figure you want it to make bad music sound bad - that's the point of studio cans.

Congratulations on finding a decent price - that's only slightly above the MSRP so it's not terrible.

Posted by Fledz on Jan-16-2007 02:49:

Absolutely, I need them to monitor until I get proper monitors, and then after that to be a secondary source for monitoring.

Oh, and I got them lowered to $210. I'm going to go pick them up on friday

Posted by Fledz on Jan-19-2007 23:53:

Got these yesterday. Great sound, and I can finally hear how shit my old tracks are in terms of sound quality

Cheers for the help guys

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