Sorry for reviving this old thread. If anyone is interested in buying a pair. Really awesome price, if you managed to sneak through our Kastam and not get taxed.

http://www.costcentral.com/proddetail/Sony...6/pricegrabber/

An independent reviewer and a hardcore one. This IEM scored quite handsomely, despite the price bracket.

http://www.head-fi.org/t/478568/multi-iem-...-added-12-16-12

There are some forwarder service that allow you to *cough* specify *cough* the amount to declare, if you know what I mean.

That seems like a really good deal. I wished haven't just bought mine, else I would jump onto this one straightaway.

I would say, the treble on MDR-EX1000 is unforgiving on highly compressed sound stream (videos from Youtube) especially on dialog. Can be ear piercing. Not sure if my CriCri+ DAC plays a role on that as well.

But music listening is very pleasurable, definitely. I thought my MDR-EX90 was good, until I heard this. Demo it at Sony Center, sounds good. Side by side with my EX90, then I realised my EX90 sounds muddy.