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I did confirm today that the HD800 is indeed not discontinued and it's just the slew of wireless units that they are coming out with. I could have tried them but couldn't be arsed...

Sennheiser are still selling the HD600 which they should have discontinued years ago so the HD800 going away isn't bloody likely. Still I can check on Monday from the belly of the beast. Also Changstar as source is just precious. Might as well believe that the new HE1000 is the best headphone ever made as they are saying on HF....

I really like that one. I have something very special on the backburner for the "ultimate" KGST and I need to move it ahead in the row of priorities. Today the first GES Mk2 is taking shape with the new PCB's. Roughly half the size of the Woo Mk1 unit and it's fully balanced, with a better PSU and far less distortion...

That's what Stax do

It says HD800 - Black, which were discontinued by Sennheiser or rather never made it to serial manufacture. They always planned on having a silver and a black one before launch.

You could also have left out about half of the holes.

Good luck getting any reply from Conrad as they have gone into full radio silence mode.

Nothing like that had been decided last I heard. They are being awefully cryptic with this whole thing

It is coming and the price is insane. They turn 70 in May so it's time for a celebration. There will also be a new dynamic at some point, more high end than the HD800

The Leica S isn't exactly light so that is a factor.

Happy Birthday!!! I baked you some bread and then I sold it all...

I think that says it all...

I think the BC stuff is as sure a bet as we can have with semi's. They are old as the hills a a lot of companies make them. It's either that of throw an ECC83 in there. They will outlast all of it in production.

We will do a competely SMD attenuator as Í'm not going to assemble them... I'm also in charge of parts procurement. If everything I've bought turns out to be real then I'll have parts for at least 50 T2's... or even 100.

Kevin and I have been discussing something similar if we build a few commercial grade T2's.

Nice to see that one again. The JJ ECC83S are about as good as it gets so they would be my choice. It would be fun to build a few more of these with a CCS load for both stages (well sink for the front end). Would be a killer budget Stax amp.

It's huge... even for me. It's a love piece of kit though.

You can't have an amp that can drive both speakers and headphones equally well. Can't be done and it is shows when team molasses loves it.

It's HF, they are all idiots looking for the next new shiny. This is better than most of the crap they shill but it's still not the all round champion people think it is.

The insulation spec of air is about 100V/mill so you are more than covered.

Anybody preferring the 507 to anything Stax have ever made must be on crack. They are that bad... Only the 207 is useable of the new Lambdas but naturally Stax could have fixed the recent units like they did with the 009. Haven't bothered to get any of them just to try it out. You really can't fix any of the drivers DIY. As soon as you open them up they are compromised in terms of dust and debris.

I like it even more in the flesh.

One of the CCS 3675's shorting to the heatsink was what killed my T2 so they aren't welcome.

Mostly to do with the 10M90 CCS. Works just fine but I fear it might change too much how the amp performs over the stock CCS. As I have thousands of 2SC4686A's and 2SA1486's using it isn't a problem.

Those boards aren't ready for full release and I doubt we are going to clean them up. I also have my reservations about the mod going too far in some aspects so I will rather work on the new T2 version for Kevin and I.