spritzer

Well they are in bed with Cavalli so what else could be expected... ?

Nice!! I love a good dumpster fire!!

Speaking of the devil... https://www.massdrop.com/buy/massdrop-x-airist-audio-r-2r-dac

They don't mention any difference and knowing Stax, they would if there was any. They talked enough about the feet on the T8000...

All of the Lambda's are reasonably close in performance but I feel the L700 is better but I'd have to compare them all side by side and play with the earpads too to get a proper picture of it all. Just don't have the time for that now.

Nope, it was just the only one I had available at the time. I later sent Bob a new one when he wanted to buy it and this amp ended up as a gift to Dr. Gilmore. I don't really do special amps for myself any more, that amp was replaced with another Carbon in my system which has been there ever since.

If the seal is intact then the effect should minimal.

Yup the L300LE uses the L500 pads. I don't really like them compared to the L700 pads, this new pleather stuff Stax are using just doesn't work for me.

Pretty much everything out there. The HE90's weren't that good to begin with and the tech has moved on in the last 30 years.

They earcups are identical so they seem to fit just fine.

The L300's use the older Lambda headband so it is quite a bit smaller than the new metal ones. I don't see any reason why the headbands couldn't be swapped but I can check it out later.

I have a massive head and the L700 fits me better. The L300 isn't uncomfortable for me but not super comfy either...

I want to try some of them but I'm not going to pay retail. Been around the dac block a few too many times...

I have the Ares, it is excellent regardless of the price.

Has to be a new one coming then. That would be too funny though... I looked around to see who's selling the "old one" and found this blurb on Woo Audio's site. So wrong...just wrong:

More like voodoo dolls...

Yup, the 120R resistor. Measure from B- to the other side of the pot and then you'll know if you need a larger or smaller value.

Pure quality there. Now blow them up!!!

Same thing here, I have thousands of them.

I haven't spent any time with it recently as I constantly have new toys to play with but I'll get back to it at some point. For the price it walks all over the Massdrop and Monoprice garbage. It's also far more useful, a dac (with a variable output too), a preamp and a headphone amp.

Gotta love those clones...

Yeah but I haven't spend nearly enough time with them to properly compare. Anybody thinking this is a L700 lite is sorely mistaken though...

With electrostatics this is more academic that anything else due to their balanced nature. The Stax wiring scheme calls for the + output to be wired to the front stator, i.e. closest to the ear. This one is the reverse of that, with - fed to the front stator. This has been done before though, the Sennheiser HE60 is supposed to be wired like this and some others over the years as well. Years ago when I first got into this (shit...more than 15 years ago) I was interested in this and made a cheater plug which does just this, reverse the polarity of the drivers but naturally both at the same time. It did very little if anything but I might have to dig it out and do some more testing.

I haven't tried those pads but swapping the pads out in general on the KS does wonders. The stock ones are abysmal and yet they use the same ones as on the KS-H1's...

I had one here so why not use it. As for a difference, there is a subtle one but it's hard to know with the shitty earpads. Those plastic clips are super annoying so I can't be sure if they are really sealing.