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I got a near new SR-5 in the mail yesterday and holy hell it sounds good off the KGST. Even with the stock pads it has good imaging, detail and bass. Goes to show what driving something properly can do...

Well at least they are in good hands. I've spent a lot of money of on out of production sand in the last year though... a lot!!!

One google search away....

There should be one wire connecting both 0V and another one connecting both 115V terminals on the transformer. Since you have a double pole switch, both those wires can come from the switch.

That's pretty much on the same street as the bakery.

I guess that is enough for a few T2's...

I haven't tried them but the pads are very different. Something for the todo list though...

PCB fab houses can be such an epic pain to deal with. I have some KGST boards up on my site if anybody needs a set. These are the slightly smaller version I use and the PSU is the super small KGSSHV mini unit.

How can anything sound wise not be a personal preference? They are missing the accurate soundstage of the 007, I think most would agree about that. I could have said "sharp soundstage" but this still stands. . I'm sure many people would welcome the slightly diffused sound but it's not for me. In comparison to the Audeze, people have been known to roll pads on them to get the sound they like. Stuffing some scrap foam between the baffle and the pads would be simple and cheap compared to that.

You do that at the switch. + - - + XLR x x x x Output from switch + G G + RCA G is tied to common ground Something like this. Flip the switch to RCA and it grounds the - inputs to the amp.

The switch is simply a 4PDT ON-ON unit. Wire the 4 poles from the XLR inputs to one side and the RCA input as plus and minus as ground on the other end. Dead simple.

You know that I don't cut Stax any slack at all. How many times have people said here that I was overly critical of the 009's? Add to that the Lambda lineup, the 007Mk2, their crappy stock amps and how am I cutting them any slack at all? The angling of the earpads is a personal preference, just me preferring a smaller, tighter sound stage and not the diffuse one Stax set the phones up to give. Also any comparison with Audeze has to boil down to them shipping out defective units. Stax don't do that and the channel imbalance issue sure isn't a defect in that sense. It can happen to any electrostatic transducer.

I used some clones back in the day and they worked well enough even in a KGSS. I'm not going risk using them in my builds though.

Here you go, this is a shot of the left earpiece: So the goal is the increase the height of the earpads in the back to get a greater angle. The greater the angle, the better the soundstage.

Any of the Audeze been made for 10+ years? Nope...

Just some scrap foam I had and I never go to the HF forums any more.

Some would believe so due to the sulfur dioxide in the air. The same people have no idea what coal plants are spewing out though...

The serial on mine is 2561 so yours could be the fixed one. Stax would never tell us though... The goal of the foam mod is to increase the height of the earpads behind the ears to get a better angle of the drivers above the ears. I made a wedge shaped piece of foam (think ( on it's side) and out the thickest part where the small recess behind and under the ears is.

They have always been like that. All those different SRM-1 Mk2 designs, different SRM- T1's, the SR-Omega being in constant evolution for those two years they made them, the SR-007Mk1 being a collection of at least 4 major design changes plus the whole 007Mk2 and then Mk2.5.

So... no trips to Iceland then? We still have an active one in the highlands that has pumped out more pollution in the last six months that all of Europe combined...

Simple, the earpads are too flat.

One must do mod with the 009 is to stuff the inside of the earpads with some foam. This restores the soundstage they are missing.

The pads are a bit different but they are not the change. I've already swapped pads and the difference is not there. The info comes directly from Stax but without going into too much detail, they finally had the equipment to see what we were complaining about. Said things were then fixed...

I'm quickly donning my MOTMOTMOTMOT hat here. I working on updating the DIY part of my website and putting all the stuff that was in the old F/S threads here up there. Some stuff is still missing as I just forgot about it while wondering how did I accumulate all this stuff. http://mjolnir-audio.com/?page_id=73 Some new stuff too as I finally think I have enough 2SC4686A's to go around. Also a small PCB to use 12VA PCB mount transformers for the low voltage supply of the KGST. This means the Antek 275V transformer can be used easily and this is far cheaper than using custom iron. Also KGST boards with the mini KGSSHV psu. The new KGSSHV onboard design, the first amp boards to be labeled "final".

I like it a lot. Add on servo's and everything...