Knock, On Wood, Baby! If you love wood (no pun intended) in your headphones, you can get the new condition wired closed-back over-ear E-MU Purpleheart headphones in the “Massdrop X” edition at the Massdrop website for $75 with free US shipping and free US returns.

This is an “in-stock drop” or as today’s Massdrop kids like to call it, a “Ready to ship” item, so it will ship quickly. With the Christmas and New Year’s holidays, the shipping estimate is slightly longer than the usual two business days, as of the time of writing the shipping estimate is January 4 in 2021.

Being a Massdrop collaboration, this comes with a 1-year manufacturer warranty.

This is the most spartan package ever, you get the headphones and nothing else. The cable is glued-in, so no accessories included 🙂

PS: if the look is familiar, yes, there is a “Fostex the people” connection. Here’s a blast from the past video from Tyll with engineer Chan Ming Tat talking about the creation of the E-MU wood line…

Yet another offer has blossomed into a fully unlocked flower at Massdrop [such flowery language today!], it is the new condition E-MU Teak Headphones w/ Removable Cable going for $500 with free shipping. You have a choice of Teak, Rosewood or Ebony which is $20 more. These will be shipped by the vendor in mid-February 2018, so patience is a two month virtue in this case. The offer runs for the next seven days and change (as of the time of writing). There is no mention of warranty on the listing.

Massdrop is also running a number of headphone offers that are shipping quickly (less than a week after ordering). You can find those in our Massdrop Tracker perma-post.

Wood time! The E-MU Wood Headphones with a detachable cable are currently fully unlocked at the members-only Massdrop for $500 with free shipping. The offer runs for the next seven days. You have a choice of Teak or Rosewood or Ebony (+$20) during the checkout process. A total of 200 units are available through this purchase which will ship late July 2017. As before, all sales are final, so keep that in mind ~ knock, on wood! 🙂

Knock, on wood (and your spouse-CFO’s door) to get authorization for this Massdrop offer, it is the E-MU Teak Headphones with Removable Cable going for $500 plus $20 flat shipping. You can select teak or rosewood at checkout, or go ebony for $20 more. Only 100 units are available for this promotion which runs for the next seven days (or earlier if sold out, it’s already 74% claimed as of the time of writing). It will ship early March 2017, so patience is a virtue 🙂

Set your alarm clocks for Tuesday 9am ET if you are interested in the Massdrop x E-MU Purpleheart wood headphones. They will be unleashed on the members-only service there with a price of $75 with free shipping. They will have 3000 units available for this particular drop.

IMPORTANT: these will ship mid-April 2017. I repeat, middle of April in 2017. Think Tax Deadline day. So perhaps look at this as more of a Kickstarter/IndieGoGo than a purchase 🙂

Tomorrow at 9am ET is decision day if you are interested in the previously mentioned Sennheiser HD 6XX Massdrop offer, but you have more decisions to make until then. It’s wood time and it’s unlocked, the E-MU Teak Headphones with a Removable Cable are going for $500 plus $15~ flat shipping. You have a choice of wood (teak, rosewood) or you can go ebony for an extra $20. There are 200 units available for the drop, which is 55% sold as of the time of writing.

The offer is running for the next four days (from blog-posting date), and comes with a 1-year Massdrop warranty. Shipments will happen in late December 2016. This is based on familiar Fostex/Denon designs. Check forums and websites for more details on them.