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You have to stop all of this ESP950 talk... its one of the few phones I've never heard... \ On a better note I scored one of the rarest and most sought after Stax phones, the SR-Alpha Pro Excellent. It was the ultimate expression of the SR-X Mk3 driver with PC-OCC cable and special earpads but the price was so high that few sold.

They have been doing this for a long time around the holiday season. This game has been a long time coming as I remember it was ready for released and even previewed back in '99.

The P&G's had some issues. You can get a 2 gang RK50 for 400euros so the 4 gang would be double that.

The P&G RF15 is the best pot they offer and it is supposed to be a step down from the RK50 and there have also been some issues with them. Impressive pots though but I'm glad that my new source has a built in volume control so I remove all steppers and pots from the signal path. The RK50 gets the best recommendation I can think off... Kondo uses them. That's enough for me.

It's not really the pads but the technology that is built into them. They have ports or something like that which brings the bass under better control similar to the system on the 4070.

They are always working against at least a triple markup. Stax needs their share, so do the distributors and the dealers. The T2 would be at least 10k or more if they sold it today.

Why change a good thing? The 4070 was a tremendous effort to design and with only a few engineers on staff there is a lot to do in a limited amount of time. They wouldn't even have altered the SR-007 except for the ROHS that forced them to change the amps and headphones alike so they came up with a facelift that would fix those issues that they weren't' aware of 9 years ago. I'm sure they have continued the Omega research started way before the Sr-Omega was released but there is nothing wrong with the Sr-007 that can be "fixed". They could come up with a much more expensive version with better materials but there would be little to gain.

I don't think I even asked when it would be finished... I don't care all that much as I have a few players here to use once the Meridian is gone. I was a bit concerned by the post that they would start to offer the upgrades in the spring... I was also talking to him about electrostatic amp design and I should really bother him some more about it. It will be very interesting to see what he comes up with.

Yup! Congrats Justin and let me know what you think off them. I'll hold out for now to see how the Purtscheller headphone business develops but I have one SR-007A on hold.

I'm sure you could talk him into doing it but I'm sure that would require some new interface between transport and DAC as well as the complete rebuild of both units. OTOH I should really start bothering Alex and see if they aren't about finished with my 3910... :'( I think I read on the APL forum that the SA-10 is supposed to be the dedicated transport and then a DV-60 and a UX-1 for those insane enough. The P-05 would be cool though as it looks so good.

Looks cool. *goes to check if there is a 230v version* That is the only way. Life is too short for boring amps with boring tubes.

I need to get one like this as I'd build a lot more circuits with no PSU worries... \

Very, very cool! Shame about the 550v HV limit...

That's the same spec as the DAC64 though Stereophile measured it a 3.1v/6.2v. This doesn't account for the difference in volume level...

You can certainly fall a long, long ways but trick to to not be a gullible idiot. Do the research and you will end up with a great system no matter the price level. Just don't listen to anything you can't afford as that will only mean trouble...

Looks like you had a great time. Try to clean the the bed with soap and water but if it doesn't work just say you ate something bad or blame one of your friends. The only way to get rid of the hangover is time but remember next time to not fall asleep right away when you get home but to eat something and drink a few glasses of water. Works wonders as long as you didn't do something stupid like drinking bear, red wine and gin the same evening.

Yep you're right. My bad... Still I don't get this teflon nonsense with line level signals. Teflon is a great insulator at 1kV/mil for HV but so is foam rubber and why hasn't somebody tried to make something out of that... Damn that must have sucked.

APL doesn't do mods to the P-05/D-05 that I'm aware of but if he decides to go for a P-01 and two D-01's he can have them modded...

This is also something I thought about being stuck on a rock in the middle of the Atlantic but my experience is that you get much better service from the smaller manufacturers as well as much better products on the whole. It might take some time but who cares, I've got a much better product for a lower price then anything sold at a dealer.

When Stereophile measured the DAC64 it had a 3.1/6.2v output voltage and I can't find any for the D-05. Can look in the owners manual under specs?

Ehhh it looks like I missed this one. The impedance is in the kOhms but the output impedance should be much lower. The board just contains current limiting resistors while the transformers step up the voltage and impedance. Since the voltage step up ratio is 25 then the impedance stepup is 252 or 625 so a 8 ohm input is 5kohm at the output. I'm waiting for the A version to reach the much more experienced Stax nuts in Japan but first impressions are that the new phones are an upgrade but a small one. I wasn't expecting much else though as they were just fixing the few problems that had arisen over the 9 year life of the Mk1.

Ehhh how the hell can it be unfluorinated since the most common teflon is Polytetrafluoroethylene (PTFE) and all forms of teflon are built around flour molecules. The big deal is to be rid of the teflon all together but if it doesn't contain flour it isn't teflon. With the 6N and cryo bullshit they are just luring people in that think bigger is better. Why not use a 4N wire and have longer grain so you don't need to cryo in the first place. That's the feedback I've got from people who's ears I trust. Extremely warm, mushy sound but some people do like that or rather think they do.

Hmmmm that good hahh? I think I need to get me some...

...and there is no reason for the price. It's just stranded copper