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It will take a lot of work to make that right. I'd just return it as so much of the resale value is gone. This isn't a Cavalli amp after all...

Your friend is a clueless fucking idiot.

Yup, it's EOL and with plenty of K170's out there it doesn't make any sense to use them. I still have a couple of hundred of them so they might find some use...

Well articulated bass it is not, more in the boom, boom style of the King Sound. What they did though is to move much more air to make up for the baffle or rather lack-thereof.

The volume knob is press fit for the front half but the back is fixed with a grub screw. Take off the front panel and you can access the screw and fix it in place. The rest is all shipping damage but Stax amps are very easy to damage in this way. Flimsy aluminum that needs to be supported properly. The baffle is the crucial aspect of all dipoles so the pads are indeed a part of it here. Well that would also include the head as this is a sealed baffle design.

Yup, no matching needed.

Happy Birthday John!!

It must be in the Swedish water...

The transformer will add noise. Only way around that is to switch to an R-core and isolate it. Won't be perfect but it will help.

That is very cool indeed!!

Yup, that's 120V.

Self bias aka electret. I have little hope for these. They should have just made a full blown electret unit

I use Belden mil spec 600V wire for everything, stranded naturally. Don't use the crappy cat 5 wire for high voltage, that insulation is easy to damage.

Post a picture of the transformer board and we can tell you.

Funny thing was they started at Geysir and ended at Gullfoss.... #caugh# they are right next to each other #caugh# and Þingvellir is just across the lake from the hotel.

Just watched it and that hotel they are staying at is just a couple of km's from our summerhouse.

It's better to be able to see arcing and other burns should they occur. Also the traces are all but invisible on a black board which is far from ideal.

Don't use ST parts is a good way to work. To many variables but something around 50-60W should be the norm.

B22 and our Susy amps are very different.

A Stax T2 has about 8-10 different PCB's and is built in no way like ours. Also black PCB's are just stupid. We do green for a reason.

I need to watch that. Nobody here except some of the older people actually eat the bloody shark or drink brennivín but it's a nice way to poison the tourists. I went to see Jimmy Carr here a few weeks ago and he called us on it. "Nobody fucking eats that!!" That and he called the Blue Lagoon a bunch of industrial waste water. Well it is...

Happy Birthday!!! Now go build some 'stats.... ehhh... stat!!!

Not much. Most of the Chinese boards are silly thick.

I never use one either, just have a hand on the power switch and quick reactions.

So says Tara Labs. It also helps to make them in China but label them as made in the US. Not sure why that matters but anything that helps must be a good thing...