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I've never had any noise issues with either the Alpha's or the TKD's, either the 2500 or 601 series.

I'll get on it right away. I should have some gold paint somewhere...

I have plenty of the Alpha pots so feel free to PM me . Same goes for anybody looking for a good 4-gang pot.

That's up next for me as well.

Excuse the crap quality but it does look good in the dark... Also, no nasty WPI sockets for me.

Happy Birthday!!!

I'm just using the new production Mullard's Justin shipped with it. Too busy to do any tube rolling for now...

Yeah, I'd be in for some of that as well.

Speaking of the BHSE, I just got mine. The SR-Omega sounds nothing short of awesome...

It's not really fair to compare a Headamp BH to the BHSE since Justin didn't run the former at full power due to heat issues. If it had been run at full power then they should be much closer in sound.

External transformer solution would be the only way to do this but it will also kill any chance of the headphones catching on.

In terms of industrial design the BHSE is miles ahead of the original BH, no doubt there. What I was referring to is the circuit and how it has been altered by swapping in a new CCS.

Check the amplifier section...

Ribbons are pretty much a dead short so they will need the mother of all CCS's to power them. Since this isn't practical then transformer interface is the best option. Now cramming said transformers into the headphones would be a very bad solution imo...

The KGSS and the BH share a lot of similarities but they are also very different. The BH and BHSE don't differ all that much though.

Marc is funny when he's sarcastic...

So true of so many things...

Now that is a headphone I want to hear. If they don't fuck up the chassis design then it could be something spectacular...

Happy Birthday!!!

Two of them actually, or the voltage divider doesn't work.

This is more what I was thinking about, except the audiophile version. Edit: They couldn't even spring for 1% resistors...

I guess it makes me the official SR-Omega repair center...

Yup, I heart TKD's. What I meant were those plugs you can add inline with the cables.

Nah, it's just great 10th century marketing...

Ok, some more progress. I took some time and fixed the gain issue of the 727, just swap out the 560ohm R5 and R6 resistors out for some 200ohm units. Again I was using RN60 pulls so they are way too big for the job... Now the amp has the same gain as the other Stax amps, sitting at 5 on the dial with my computer source. It does sound rather good with the SR-Omega even if it does bring out their bright nature a little bit once you push the volume. There is no excessive bloom here and it has a lot of control for a commercial amp. Why Stax couldn't just have made it like this in the first place is beyond me... As for the SRM-300, the LF353 had to go so I installed sockets and OPA2604AP's Edit: Damnit!!! I forgot to sand the chips...