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Amen brother!!!

I usually buy my pads from Japanese retailers through deputy services so I'd drop Craig at KuboTen a line and see how much a set would cost. The Mk1 pads are around 5800-6000Yen but the new pads are more expensive despite being only partially made out of leather. That's what I thought too. That guy from Poland is always saying that his set had cotton pads which makes less then no sense given the planar nature of the drivers.

The SR-007 and SR-Ω are the only headphones I can wear for hours at a time without any discomfort. The older model has got the edge though as the pads are much bigger (the whole headphone is quite a bit bigger) so they are less claustrophobic. One set went for close to 100kYen recently so this has nothing to do with sound quality any more. Btw. Do you remember what material was on the earpads when you bought them? There has been this debate on HF whether they were pleather or not. When I got my Chocolate set it came with Beyer leather pads and frankly sucked. The SR-007 pads brought much needed focus to the table along with a general upgrade in all areas.

x2 It's the only way he'll learn.

There is always something that I'm hiding...

I highly doubt that they are in any way similar, let alone if the v6.0 is made in Norway. The cost of making one unit in overhead alone is much, much higher then in the US let alone the Far East so the parts have to be cheaper to maintain the profit margin.

It's run by the guy that founded Electrocompaniet. Now thanks to you lot I'm looking into the V2.0 integrated amp for my speakers. Here I was hoping I could get away with a cheap NAD or Onkyo...

Ahhh.... well then the YH/HP-1000 should be nice but there we are right at square one again.

Now it more then stands up to its little brother but the tone is a bit different. The SR-3 has a "thicker" tone, more lush with an over damped bass so it thunders a bit but deep bass is always limited from these small drivers. The SR-1 is a bit thinner and more open then the 3 and dish out a surprising level of detail for something this old. The bass is limited by modern standards but what is there is tight and controlled. Both do have this... ehhh.... horny feeling to the sound so they are a bit larger then life but that reflects the era in which they were designed. Hell, the LP was only a few years old when the SR-1 was introduced.

T-50 v1... if you can find one. The donuts weren't miles off once fitted with SR-007 pads but still had a ways to go.

Nahh, but it's nice to know ones roots.

I was using the SR-1 for the first time in a long while and found out that there was some connection problem in the left side as it dropped out from time to time. I had noted the corrosion on the contacts when I first opened them up but since they played just fine I left it. Big mistake since now that I've gone to town with DeOxit and some sandpaper I have bass and an expansive soundstage that wasn't there before. Nice to see that grandpa still has some life left in him.

The Stax wires have only one level of insulation so the wire isn't easy to twist permanently. The Senn wire does have two layers so it's easier to twist. Just to clarify, the gold plated pins are an indication that the wires used are PC-OCC which the SR-303 uses. This is the only way to discern the rare black, non-wide PC-OCC cable from the OFC variant. The SR-007 is the easiest to fix of them all, just rotate the earpieces until the wire is untangled. Threading the rest of the cable through the Y-split also works just as well.

Yeah WTF?!?! Similarities as in there are caps, resistors and opamps used in both or the design as a whole?

x2!

Very nice!!

Cardas GRFA rca sockets are a pain to works with. You need to sand the shell to get a good contact which is just .

There is always a light twist on Stax cables so some is normal. Some examples have been worse then others with the cable badly done to begin with.

Yeah. \ I recently checked most of my Mullard stock and one of them is borderline so it's a good idea to have at least a tube checker handy. That tube has seen a lot of use in the old BH so may it rest in peace.

The BH uses EL34's and if the RCA's are really Mullards then they are very good tubes. They need to matched and tested though before even coming near the BH.

All the Signatures are brown, Lambda Signature is brown with old style of arc assembly, Nova Signature is almost identical to the SR-404 except for the labeling and the RSA approved gold rim on the drivers which can be seen from the outside.

I put that Blackgate on the bottom of the PCB so it wouldn't be in the way. It adds another 10mm or so to the height but that's no problem.

Up and running with the 7808 PSU. The heatsink on the PSU should perhaps have been a bit bigger with it's temp at 15

A cheaper amp with the same or better specs (i.e. no CCS, AC coupled, high bias output tubes) but better made and at a lower price. You may prefer the sound of the other amps or some of their features but the cold hard value is hard to deny.

Where did I comment on the sound? Change the feedback, the operating point for the tubes or the PSU and the amp will sound very different from another one using the same topology. Right now I'm building my own version of the Egmont (everything different except the basic topology if the amp section and the input tubes used) so while it will have the same character as the crap that Rudi is peddling but not sound the same.