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No problem, I'll put you in charge of quality control during your stay. This reminds me, I really should take a picture of our new sourdough breads and show them to Jacob.

That video made me cringe so often it isn't funny. If anybody would take a metal scraper to any of my machines I'd punch their lights out and leaving all those breads unprotected in the racks is madness. Using plates to insert into the ovens... Still, our days are very seldom boring and I'd take it over any 9-5 job.

Thread tag is teh funneh!! The Stax mafia should really be renamed the ES mafia as that's what we are about, regardless of who makes them. That said, ML speakers were never good but the new ones are just terrible, taking away all rigidity in the panel to make it look cool and the bass/panel integration is a joke. Things are apparently even worse with the newest stuff and the recent sale of ML and moving of the production to Canada hasn't improved things. Still, some of the old ones are ok and I was just asked to refurb and old set for my neighbor. I'm thinking complete rebuild with extensive mods to the bass but I doubt he'll like the cost...

So these might actually be worse than the ML speakers? How is that even possible? I suspect sorcery might be at work here....

Larger thermal drifts should be the cause here and that's nothing to worry about.

More current in the bridge isn't a problem.

Just checked and the bookshelf version costs 313$ up here. Gotta love high VAT and import taxes....

Brilliant!!

I thought the bass on the prototype in Chicago was a bit of a joke. Not only excessive to the extreme but also a nice prominent coloration and that bass slider... way too much to are you fucking nuts??

It's more expensive ergo moar bettah?

Could very well be. Wouldn't be the first transducer to be "upgraded" by just sorting out the crossover.

I've been spending the week with the SR-Lambda Pro and the ED-1/SRM-1 Mk 2 combo and while the effect works for some material the downsides are just too great for me. The strong center image is achieved by severely limiting the top end and the bass has a notch to it. With modern tech this effect could be accomplished without the bad effects but it's still a neat piece of Stax madness.

Making crossovers is always a crap shoot as you try to do as little damage as is possible to the sound plus maintaining correct phase. Now add to that the use of tiny parts and it's even harder to do it properly.

Glad it doesn't use the ALO fail but I still don't get how somebody could get a patent on something like this. There is no actual difference in driving active IEM's or active speakers with the crossover in front of the amps so how is this worthy of a patent or how could it even be enforced? Reminds me of an Icelandic hamburger place that has the square hamburger bun trademarked for the whole of Europe as they clearly invented it two years ago...

That would be funny but how can anybody get a patent for something that has been done for almost a century? Perhaps I should patent the electrostatic earspeaker and then sue Stax...

Indeed, nothing new about that so the patent would be very hard to enforce.

This makes even less sense to me. Granted we are talking about tiny amounts of power so it isn't a problem to drive the crossovers but why not have it in the amp where good full size components can be used and then feed 3 different amps for each driver? Better yet, use an active crossover (non DSP) and have no phase issues.

Ehh, what's the point of that system then besides subpar amplification? Aren't they still using a ALO Rx in there?

Sorry about that, that was my evil twin brother Syrgir!! ...the only word in Icelandic that rhymes with Birgir.... He's right though, the HD800 is the best dynamic transducer I've heard. Almost as clean as the HE60 which is no small thing. The LCD-2 is fun but the top end is quite limited and the bass has issues.

Yeah the LCD-2's are good but a properly driven HD800 is just way better.

Not really in the grand scheme of things. What I'd really like to try is some vintage bifilar wound Peerless or McIntosh iron...

That's what happens when BBC orders two series....

I bought two of the 2109 boxes this week so I can report when they get here.

I finished working at 9am today...