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I tried every type of ribbon cable I could get my hands on but most were crap and the liver litz was good but unwieldy. It's just so much easier to cut up a Wide PC-OCC extension cable...

Two Pro jacks FTW!!! As for the TakeT, just use one of those handy adapter cables or rewire the headphones with some Wide PC-OCC.

Adding a normal bias socket is simply a matter of changing the voltage divider so that's surely an option. There are also a few BHSE's that don't have a He90 jack such as mine. Better yet, get something that doesn't suck...

This is the standard one socket, two plugs affair. It simply separates the bias and drive voltages so that you can use any amp to drive any headphone given that you have some way to access the original bias supply. Let's say you want to drive a normal bias Sigma from a 717 and have a SRD-6 handy or that you want to use the ESP950 off a Stax amp, yet use the Koss bias supply. The one for CanJam is so that the owner of a normal bias Sigma can experience it off the BHSE.

How about a gain switch for normal gain and then a gain of 1000 for those that want to use the SR-001?

I just finished these, a couple of Stax bias leach cables. I'm fairly confident that one of them will be at CJ...

Perhaps the A-10 should rather be compared against the A11... ...that's the name of the mini ES-1....

...now we just need an electrostatic version.

You know I likes my HF on the soft side (SR-007 Mk1 ) but the distance from the drivers could be an issue. The felt on the back of the drivers is needed though to even out the sound so that could be a factor as well.

Happy birthday Justin.

I bought some resistors for the mini ES-1 project. Naturally there are no 5k trimpots to be found anywhere so I have to order them in...

That can be arranged.

The only problem I have with that description is that the SR-007A has its own midrange etch. \ I should get my 404LE soon so we'll see.

Hmmm voltage doubler, are you slumming a bit? Two serial connected PSU's sounds more like it...

What are you going to use the 300VAC for? It needs moar voltage...

Happy birthday!

Given how vastly inflated the Apache and B52 sales figures are I just assumed this was the usual BS that Ray spews.

I loved the BS about having 3000 pots that are of no use to him. Does anybody think that Ray has sold 3000 portable amps?

Ditto

Happy birthday!!

The only major change are the DC heaters for the tubes. The amp circuit is more of the same though they could have tweaked something along the way. I never looked that closely...

The last normal bias amps were made in August/September 2003 but the only change was to just replace the 6 pin socket with another 5 pin. This worked great on the 313 with only one Pro socket to begin with but the 006t and 007t were a bit silly. The 300 and 717 were never equipped with normal bias sockets since they were later additions.

We aren't really the normal Stax customers but many of us have a SRM-717 which is the best amp Stax has made in quite a while. The others aren't bad, just underwhelming.

There are also heatsinks which don't have any pins for screw mounting. I must say that I prefer the pins since it's never been a problem to remove sinks fitted with them.

Glad you like them Andy. The bass can even be a bit overwhelming at times but that's not surprising given the size of the drivers.