Everything posted by spritzer
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Grado HF-2 thread
Stop reading my mind!!!!! Now if there were a limited edition Stax headphone...
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Speaker Porn
Want... badly. This could also work though
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electrostatic sound
The SR-Lambda is the normal bias original model. I would recommended something vintage, made when overkill was the name of the game with quality connectors, over sized transformers and not every penny pinched. If that isn't an option then a 400w unit would work just fine. There is also the option to just change the voltage on the 007tA. It might require some soldering and perhaps adding a wire or two to the primary of the transformer but it's easy enough to do.
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DIY cable gallery
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...
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DIY cable gallery
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.
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DIY cable gallery
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...
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DIY cable gallery
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.
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Go figure
How about a gain switch for normal gain and then a gain of 1000 for those that want to use the SR-001?
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DIY cable gallery
I just finished these, a couple of Stax bias leach cables. I'm fairly confident that one of them will be at CJ...
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New RSA amp...
Perhaps the A-10 should rather be compared against the A11... ...that's the name of the mini ES-1....
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Go figure
...now we just need an electrostatic version.
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Investigation into possible mods for the Stax SR-404
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.
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Happy Birthday mypasswordis
Happy birthday Justin.
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Post the last thing you bought!
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...
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The Headcase Stax thread
That can be arranged.
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The Headcase Stax thread
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.
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Post the last thing you bought!
Hmmm voltage doubler, are you slumming a bit? Two serial connected PSU's sounds more like it...
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Post the last thing you bought!
What are you going to use the 300VAC for? It needs moar voltage...
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Happy birthday nikongod!
Happy birthday!
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Go figure
Given how vastly inflated the Apache and B52 sales figures are I just assumed this was the usual BS that Ray spews.
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Go figure
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?
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Post the last thing you bought!
Ditto
- Happy Birthday xand1x
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The Headcase Stax thread
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...
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The Headcase Stax thread
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.