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It's for a dac but why anybody would buy one now is beyond me. DAC's are moving so quickly these days that nobody can keep up.

Ehhh Stax had a servo in the T2, 717 and 727... Yeah the LV supply is probably for the addon.

It does seem though that Stax have finally decided to make some money on their amps as 600K for that...is a bit extreme. I do like the knob and the new face plate though, very classy yet classic Stax. We don't know when the new Stax phones will come but they have been working on them for a while now.

astroglide is just retarded so why waste energy on him? He takes being clueless to new heights... As for the amp...I bet it is just a 727 with tube input but who knows what they are up to. Looks to be a completely unregulated PSU as usual with just the LV rails and tube heater being regulated. That could work if you manage the backwave. Well they were LNS drivers as they are way better than the 404 crap... They are still attached to the HE90 baffles though as the plan is to make a clone of the HE90 shells one of these days and use them in it. Add some slight angle to the drivers and the end result would be far better than the stock stuff.

It's truly impressive

Nope, never sold that one. Now fitted with real HE90 drivers and never used as they now suck...

Kevin's house is filled with crap already so yeah...this might end badly. He even complained when I was digging through his box of unpopulated PCB's that I was messing up "his filing system"... Seriously though, I spent a week there and I doubt I saw all of it. I think I have more headphones though...

I doubt it. There will be a lot more prototypes to come but I don't see a point in selling them.

These are handy to keep around for testing amps as they indeed don't need a bias supply. Just hook up a channel and you are good to go.

I guess that makes me a squirrel then...

You will always get drift with tubes, just the nature of the beast.

There will be more wood coming soon...

It's all about the previously owned cables.... Interesting that he just opened up a new HF "thing" for that Wells Audio abomination. Who wants to guess that he got a nice discount from them?

Here's something that has been cooking for a while... what happens when you take some heavily tweaked SR-X Mk3 normal bias drivers, an old SR-303 cable, some earpads from Belarus and a cheap Beyer clone from China? Something that is actually pretty decent... Now the drivers are actually Pro bias if that wasn't clear but this one fun sounding set of headphones. Off the Carbon CC it has that lovely tuneful bass the SR-X Mk3 Pro has but this one has far more body to it. The voices are sublime and have that SR-X quality to them without the over damped nature of the originals. The highs a tad too lively but that will be tweaked in version 2.0. Over all...I'm a happy bunny for spending next to nothing one these... It's fun to play with this stuff and see what comes of it.

So true. Anybody remember the WES vs. BHSE comparative review which was written by two people, one did one and and no actual comparison made and what they wrote makes no sense what so ever...

I will never post on HF again so that is a non option. He did get back to me and said I was totally wrong to just "expect" a glowing review. He does really suck at the whole shilling thing...

Every now and then I receive emails where people want free review samples or some stupid shit like that. Now then this gem showed up today: I just like the blatant offer to offer promotion and clearly a glowing review for a measly 45% discount... My reply is below... Kevin told me not to be too harsh... I think it went ok.

So he's sending me something... He'll get that joke...

Well they are just about never used so it's never really an issue. I'm working on installing a PC there so I can stream to that system and the other system in the living room so it's something to work on.

It's actually ódýrt rusl but close enough...

Last I heard they dropped that stupidity but I seriously doubt those connectors they use on the housings are rated at 1000V...

They are but the thick mats are in place on the back of the drivers so they help. They are about as far into the room as I dare (roughly 1m) before I might be susceptible to some spousal abuse...

In our ongoing quest to buy random shit to try out, Kevin bought a Jotunheim as he was interested in the circuitry. He thought they might have done something novel... but it is utterly mediocre as one has come to expect these days. One interesting bit is the horrible assembly quality (hello hand soldering at minimum wage) and dubious parts such as no name switches... which arrived broken. Now this is a budget piece so corners have to be cut but not cleaning off the flux is just sloppy. sj.pdf For me the biggest letdown with all of this is the major disservice Schiit and others are doing to the community. They are toting these frankly "shit" amps as power houses (well they are) as if this power mattered at all. 2.5W or what ever is of no use in a headphone amp unless it is some really clean Class A power. 25mA bias at +/-12V isn't that so they have the noobs and experienced users alike again focusing on the power output when it is a meaningless figure.

Yeah...Thoranna just had to have that one on Staten Island after the first ferry trip... Btw. The black pile next to the statue are the custom Quad covers I had made in Russia. Nicely made and fit perfectly over the speakers to block out the sunlight should it get through the curtains...

True!! I do like their stator design and if they can manufacture them with solid quality control and in a clean room, they could be pretty good. It would also make other manufacturers look at 'stats as a market they'd be willing to get into.