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Then it's clear you need some Sigma pads in your life. PM me your address and I'll send them out on Monday. The 4070 headband could probably be arranged. I've never seen it listed though and since it is screwed into place (from the inside of the housing) Stax may not consider it "user replaceable" and thus not sell it.

If you need any help then just ask. I should have some old Sigma earpads if you want to try them as well.

I was more thinking about using the Lambda arc then the actual chassis and that seems to be more then possible. Do you know any good carpenters? You could also bug Steve or Gary...

Can't beat the ghetto look. Are the drivers about the same size as a Lambda housing or bigger? If you could use Lambda arc and a custom housing with a new baffle then it would be a very comfy headphone. As for the design... I really don't think they tried anything else. Just see Mr. Purtscheller who worked on the Floats and just continued that work. It can be very hard to break the mold...

Do tell young squire!! Better bass control I would guess plus some other improvements? Just spent a few hours trouble shooting my old Kenwood. It had been acting out for the last few years which I just chalked up to dirty contacts but it turned out to be a broken speaker selector switch. Easy to fix by simply bypassing it but now I have to find a new amp to test Stax adapter boxes...

I've never even tried to find any but some open celled 1/2" stuff should do. There is a thicker material at the bottom but it should be easy to separate the two.

I'm not sure that the old forks work with the arc and wise versa. I'm pretty sure I tried it once but can't remeber if it worked or not.. They probably wanted the S/N to see if you had bought the headphone from them.

Happy Birthday!

You would love the SR-X Mk3 Pro then. It takes all the good aspects of the normal bias model and better them plus adds some much needed bass presence, not a whole lot though but it goes deep, very deep, and they have a bit of a soundstage as well. You should also try the 4070 since it is a more modern version of the SR-X but they sound similar.

That's not a bad idea and perhaps shorten the legs a bit too. Finding a car I can drive for more then 5 minutes has proved tricky...

Don't have a scanner... I need to buy one though as I have quite a bit of old reviews collected.

There are about 12-15mm of clearance but I did form the arc so that it rises a bit higher then it should i.e. I moved most of the bend which should be closest to the ears over to the whole arc.

They were just fine, the earpads aren't particularly comfy but that's not my fault. I also can hardly use the HE90 due to limited range on the arc and I wear all of the Stax phones at maximum extension (not the SR-Omega but they have an extra 12mm at each side). No beard and or a horned helmet... I do scare small children so that they run away or they look at me utterly bewildered.

(hides in shame as Jecklin Floats won't even fit my huge head...)

In some Stax news, I just got one of the few reviews I know of the SR-Omega/SRM-T2 combo but sadly it is in German. Needless to say it is in "Absolute Spitzenklasse 1" Stax. Here is the service list on the Japanese version of the Stax site and the SR-5 pads are still listed as being in stock.

Brilliant as I was just looking for that info. Time to gut the old KGSS chassis and put a BH in there...

Is there another Hubble type of incident looming...?

What about adding a fixed attenuation to the cable going from the Gamma to the Mini? It's just a couple of resistors for each channel, tied to ground.

I do want those but it's a few grand just to get them up and running again. The TOTL Stax speaker was the 8X-BB... which stands for battery bias.

I have way too many project to add on a Dynafet but I could do with some k389 replacements...

Your doing something wrong... Can you post some pics?

That's exactly what I think he's referring to.

...and your point is??

Congrats on being one year closer to death...