“An engineer explained to us that hundreds of ear impressions were gathered in the name of research, and while each one obviously boasted its own unique shape and size, one single characteristic remained uniform across the board: the entrance into the ear canal is not a perfect circle, it's an oval.”
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"...which seems to suggest that _the Linux-based 901s_ are harder to find simply because _they're_ sold out..."
The antecedent, "the Linux-based 901s," are not selling anything. They are being sold, and they have been sold out.
Have been = are/were
Have =/= were.
I hope you aren't an literary consultant.