Haha, Iām glad it worked for you, but there is no way Iād be comfortable with that situation. Thanks for sharing though.
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The hardest part was setting up the account and address, but after that it isnāt too bad. Taobao is a huge site that is well known, like the Chinese Ebay or Amazon so I wasnāt too worried. I would just make sure you use a credit card that has protection so you can dispute any shady charges or whatever.
The XLR cable was well worth the trouble for me. I think maybe they revamped their cables possibly. In Zās review, his cable was rubbery or vinyl covered. This one is an 8 weave of individual fabric covered wires.
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Learn something new today,
thank you so much,
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I receieved the same update from DHL today. Currently in Shenzhen, China. Estimated arrival (To Colorado, USA) is Monday. That is pretty incredible if it is true.
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Same here. Getting my GL2000ās on Monday. Iām looking forward to comparing them against my TH900ās especially for gaming purposes.
I agree with the other posters here, Zeos has a pretty good instinct for good headphones. I got my TH900ās because of his review, and I absolutely love them. Although heās being super positive reviewing these particular HPās, I took a leap of faith and Iām looking forward to hearing them for myself.
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Iāll be looking forward to this comparison. Itās the same one I will be doing, but I still have several weeks before mine ship.
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Making the account and adding the address was pretty easy here, but it seems that the item does not ship to the Netherlands. Also: contacting the seller is a thing that it proving to be difficult for me.
First you need to go to wangwang.taobao.com and download the blue app, aliwangwang. Install that and sign in with your taobao account info, then click on the logo highlighted in the pic on the item page on taobao.
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Thanks! Trying that now. Really hope he can ship to the Netherlands 
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The aliwangwang app can be a little difficult without translation, but I just used my cell phone with the google translate app. You can use the camera mode and look at your monitor through your cell camera and it will translate the Chinese for you.
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It sucks, haha! Iāve been in a loop trying to connect an email address to it. It just wonāt let me. And I canāt recall that I filled in a password, so cannot login to aliwangwang either.
Sucks, price is really great there at Taobao. Does anyone have a direct mail address for the seller? Or can anyone ask one ;)?
So, I just received my pair from Linsoul today. Iām not sure if they sent me the wrong hybrid pads, but they have a D shaped interior. This is different than any stock pictures advertised anywhere nor in any reviewer pics. Here are pics of them. Not sure if these will affect the sound any different than the oval interior hybrids. I will not know. My set came with the 4.4 Pentacon plug.
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looks like you got the d, how do they sound?
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wow. the d-shaped pads looks different. kinda like HD800. I can only assume itās some new pad revision. when I press mine hybridsinto this shape with my fingers more highs and air appear. maybe this is a response to objections regarding the highs by some reviewers?
Iām following this with interest, though I confess to being in the āprefers not to buy Chinese when possibleā camp for a bunch of reasons that probably should be left for a different forum. Itās clear that Chi-Fiās disrupting the audio world big time by blowing away so many of the established brands with offerings at remarkably low prices. Hopefully that will be for the best by forcing everyone else to up their game, though itās also possible theyāll make it so that all audiophile stuff will be Chinese except for a handful of super high-end boutique things.
I will say in response to the debate about Zās hype that heās never steered me wrong on a number of purchases, though those have all been at the lower end. Also, I understand several things about audio reviews about which Z makes no secret. The most important is the high degree of subjectivity with regard to sound. We all like different things. Also, weāre all comparing our own listening experience to other listening experiences weāve had. Mostly weāre comparing what weāre hearing to what we remember hearing ā¦the remembering of a subjective listening experience is doubly subjective. Subjective squared, I guess.
Finally, new things are coming out all the time. So it doesnāt bother me that Z or anyone else is hyping product X at the moment when just six months ago he was hyping something else. In fact Iām rather astonished by how quickly things move in the audiophile world. Iām someone who comes and goes from this forum. Iāll go a few months without checking in and then start reading again, only to find people recommending stuff I hadnāt heard of before. My sense of what the current forum favorites were proves to be out of date.
Of course Iām one to agonize over purchases for a long time, especially when weāre talking about things I donāt need. These basically are luxury purchases. I have perfectly good headphonesā¦which means that itās hard for me to justify buying anything new just because I want to (Oh, and believe me I do). Iām not an early adopter whoāll go throw money at something immediately after Z says so regarding an item no one else has reviewed. In time the reviews will pile up, and a clear consensus will emerge. My bet some will say Z was right. Others will say they get why Z was excited but subjectively found that this or that was problematic, and theyāre sticking with their favorite.
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I ordered my GL2000 on January 18th. directly from Linsoul. Shipping was last Monday. Today I got a call from DHL Germany regarding customs. They want a proof of purchase / account statement from me showing the payment. Well, wrongly declared goods do not protect against surprises by customs. I should have ordered from Amazon once - now itās getting expensive ā¦
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Damn, the takstar 82 pro from aliexpress went thru customs in germany and i didnāt had to pay anything
But yeah, always expect it to happen.
you donāt need to show them the proof. read carefully e-mail from them. I send them only scan of my declaration where I write that is worth 99$.
Too lateā¦didnāt got an email from them. They kinds tricked me in sending the purchase proofs before the email. āTo speed things upā.
Thanks for the tip anywayā¦
too bad. Iām sorry. I hope that you will like GL2000 as I like them