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Happy Birthday!!!

WTF indeed. I just love stuff like this, no idea how bloody well designed the original was but this guy could clearly do better....

I'd have to see the SR-003 up close but the plug works well so I don't see any need to change it. There are also not that many options in such a tiny system...

My condolences Shelly. It always sucks to loose a pet...

This is indeed a new, more expensive Omega. It's not a replacement for the SR-007.

Happy Birthday gents!!!

It's the same design as this one. Far cry from the BH/T2's of this world...

Yet another crappy day at work but at least the phone and internet works now so that's something. To make up for the crappy week I paid a visit to Stuart at his photo lab for a great discussion about pretty much everything.

Vintage Lambdas FTMFW!!!

Aside from the large number of small caps (49 I think) it is pretty easy to swap them out. There are also only two values used in the DAC, large 2200uf caps in the PSU and small (10uf?) elsewhere.

You know Mike, the clarinet guy...

You could try the bitumen shingles since all you are doing is adding mass.

It gets even better once you replace those tired old electrolytics...

Happy Birthday both of you!!!

SRM-300 Stax amp. Way too light to do any real damage...

The Stax Sigma's are in some ways similar but yeah, the K1k is pretty unique.

Just in time for the new flagship...

The transformer primaries could have an effect here even with nothing connected to the Stax sockets.

The normal bias only version was made well into the 80's going all the different boards I've seen used in them. Most are pretty easy to fit with pro bias...

If it was deionized water then it was fine but normal water... Faulty insulation would be the most probable culprit here.

The 4070 is made in tiny numbers so making drivers for them shouldn't be a problem. Stax have also showed they can make any driver again should the need arise, including SR-X mk3 Pro.

The 4070 isn't a normal Stax headphone by any means since it was designed under a contract of some sort. It's main use is monitoring for the large Japanese broadcast companies so they will probably stay the same. We did know that there was a new, higher end, Omega coming for a few years now. The only issue was when exactly...

It is very different (AC-coupled and normal bias only) and will need to be fully refurbished.

Stax have always referred to them as O2's... Not a chance in hell of that happening...

It does sound pretty good that one. Don't feed it with a 96kHz signal though, the relays go nuts!