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I don't think they ever hid that they were made in China but they are great transformers. Very consistent in quality which is hard to come by these days. Plus they oversize all of the cores so they run cooler and with less chance of any nasty behavior. As somebody that has ordered transformers in bulk from China, they stop being cheap very quickly once you ask for some proper specs or even worse... actual bloody copper in them.

I'm looking forward to those as I'm slowly working on my own version just for me, i.e. fixing how they sound. :) I got these recently: https://poloyoaudio.store/products/hongshu-eh1 It is my third one of these as they design has been maturing over the years. I'm waiting on a replacement set as mine had some noise issues in one driver so I'll do a proper write up as they arrive but I do like them a lot. The earpads are crap but there is a lot of potential there.

Shit that's bad. I'm sure all those 10% carbon comp resistors add a magical tone...

Found some more pics of the Viva STX which I'm okey borrrowing knowing how much this guy has taken from here. Seriously, this thing is so fucking bad. I think this might be the same unit as was posted before, very similar burn marks on that electrolytic cap... which is always a sign of quality. Rifa caps and all that but that switch floating on some hot glue. Yup... pure quality for only 12k$.

Which has probably been bounced back as that is not my domain name.

What the actual fuck is this? How is posting in an open forum "reaching out to me"? Copied from the Audioretards forum: Did you send me a PM or an email? No... so how did you reach out to me? Go ask the retard in chief over there on how to test electrostatic amps... as he did such a good job last time. Wasn't the quote something like, how can anybody listen to this as it measures so badly? Yeah... stellar work there.

Well ASR is beyond retarded... so take that with a tonne of salt. I have the Drop version and they are fine... nothing special but well worth the 100$ they sold at there.

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.