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It should work, the ratio is a bit higher than the Stax ones. Ultimately it's not about power but voltage in the system or voltage swing rather.

2-3W or so? That is very much on the low side but it always depends on overall system gain and how loud you listen. A Stax SRD-7 Mk2 should work as the ratio on those is on the high side.

Good transformers are a great way to do that and are definitely getting more popular.

With no inside pics it is hard to tell but I had the Mk1 and it was utter trash and dangerous to the end user. There are pics here somewhere of that but yeah, utter garbage

Ouch, that's really sad as the Z10e is pretty much the bottom of the barrel when it comes to electrostatic amps.

You are supposed to bend the arcs on the 007 to get the perfect fit so perhaps that is the issue or they are a bit loose? Please don't use anything but JIS screwdrivers on these or you will utterly destroy the screws.

Did anybody try these at the NYC meet? https://apos.audio/products/sjy-electrostatic-headphones

If they can fix the QC issues everybody is talking about, then I'm hyped. I never had issues with my sets but then again... I don't use them all that much.

The L500 pads are virtually the same, a bit thicker but it won't change much. Same for the L700 pads but they will both also melt away. I always use the all leather pads from China now, cheaper and much better quality but you need to get them onto the plastic mounting plate from the original pads... which is a bit of a pain

That's excellent news as I liked the latest version I heard, V3.0 I believe. The amps are pretty poor though but better than the first version

Sorry, the links I used to buy them are dead but they are floating around on goofish

Multiple on both accounts... I might have a bit of a hoarding issue...

It could be the 20AWG wire but going by the price... I doubt it. Maybe some Chinese clone

Yeah, this is shockingly bad. Why they didn't just adapt the many headbands on the market in China is beyond me. The CD3000/R10 units are very well made from the right supplier.

When I've had time recently I've assembled a few more DIY electrostatic headphones: First off, the last of the Superex chassis I had in stock so I designed a new stator design for them: This has been a long running project to to make drivers and test the various aspects in a controlled housing. They are not ideal as they are mostly closed but I got a bunch of them for next to nothing years ago. New stators with some minor tweaks and a protective grill too: These are not really built for sound quality but to test different coatings, distortion tests on drivers and all that jive but still fun to have a pile of these here. Since the Superex is just a Beyerdynamic clone, I found some DT880's with blown drivers that could also work: The need to be modified internally a bit to open up the back but nothing major. Different stators on this one and the drivers have to be at a 45° angle to get it all to fit (not that it matters at all) but same basic idea as above Round them off with some nice leather pads, silicone 6 core cable and my new Stax plugs that I've been refining recently. These do sound better than the Superex shell as the backwave is more open. Finally, the second of those Kiwi Ears headphones was fitted with drivers: No major changes here except I didn't use the bayonet plate to fix the earpads, I rather slipped the stock pads over the lip of the housing which helped a lot Also some simple tweaks to ensure better baffle seal: Thick cloth tape here and it works nicely. These are okey sounding headphones for next to no money at all.