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I'm sitting here at the Comfort Inn in Boston. My phone doesn't appear to be working correctly...

My guess is that this has nothing to do with the system being colored. Rather impedance matching, damping factor etc. is the key here.

Well a German Stax engineer would never even have heard about the Airbow as they aren't Stax and not sold outside of Japan. For those of us that have compared a stock 404 against a SR-SC1 side by side, both using the same pads, the difference is quite clear.

Paging Dr. Gilmore, dr. Gilmore to the Stax thread!!! I say the whole cryo BS is just that, BS and the phones are just custom made for Airbow. Subtle changes to the mylar treatment could account for the changes in sound signature. The new SR-404 earpads are all but identical to the LE pads in shape so that is clearly not the issue

I say the SR-SC1 has drivers which aren't made the same way as other SR-404 units. These drivers then found their way into the 404LE. The 253 is the same amp as the stock unit but it might have higher rated parts plus the dedicated PSU so it will have more power.

I'm packing here too. No bottles but Stax transformers and speaker cables aren't exactly feather weight... Might have hit a snag as there is no luggage allowed on my connecting flight according to my e-ticket... I'll have to sort that out in the morning and figure out where that hotel I'm staying at is in Boston. The netbook is at least loaded with music and TV shows so it should make for an ok flight

A breathed on SR-404

Nope, not until September.

If you are used to minor repairs the the mod should be no problem. It involves simply adding some blocking material to the port (I use blutac) and altering the spring inside the headphones to make it sit flatter to the headphone body and to make it a bit wider. Warm and extended, noting springs to mind but some of the old Parasound dac's would be a so0lid choice and I quite like the Adcom GDA-700 once I had replaced the aging caps.

Yeah, if you are to weak to bend two thin strips of metal.

Yeah, that what I mean. They will sell a lot of units now but in a couple of months the FS board will be flooded with used units and they won't sell any new ones. This has happened on HF time and time again...

For my ears the KGSS is more then good enough to drive the SR-007 so I see nothing wrong with trying out different DAC's to find the sound you are looking for.

There actually is quite a bit of damping going on in the SR-007, you just can't see it. Have you tried to adjust the arcs on the SR-007 to better fit your head? The lack of bass might be caused by the loose fit besides the amp not supplying enough current for the lower registers. I recently tried a completely untouched SR-007mk1 and they sounded like poo compared to my set. Now I have a gigantic head so a stock set will never fit me properly but it was a useful experiment wrt to the importance of a proper fit.

I can't see a problem with uncovering new ways to make them even moar awesome... I fear the fallout off of all this hype will not be good for Audeze...

He can take Ray as a study buddy...

That would explain some things...

KGSSHV FTMFW but then again I'm biased... The SR-007Mk1 has for me utterly crushed any and all contenders to the throne so the LCD-2 has to be something really special to topple it. I can't wait to spend some time with them next week though...

Get better Jim! For me I voted in the local elections and then had my first car crash. Nobody was hurt but the front of my car is a mangled mess and with a punched radiator I didn't dare drive it.

A 0-15VDC/2A variable PSU and some US currency. Damn communists in the government here, it was bad enough when we could only get about 4K$ worth of currency each but now they're limiting credit card use in the US too. Useless fucktards!!!

Too cool Craig, just too cool.

Most of the Rudistor amps are in fact not built by him so yeah, quality of these will likely be crap.

...and I'll continue to do so just to mess with you.

The SR-007 is an Omega but the Omega is the SR-Ω

Pfft... I'm going to pick up a tiny Acer tomorrow to have something to watch TV and listen to music on while on my way to CJ.

In a way yes.