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Never had one of those so I'm not sure.

Yup, we expect it by the end of the day. K'thx'by!!!

I was pulling the MSB out of my system and here is inside one of the dac modules. The cover was simply soldered in place which the Metcal simply laughed at...

The Marantz is one of the worst OEM Stax sets. The Magnavox was much better and naturally, they aren't Stax compatible. Both the pinout and the diaphragm specs are incompatible...

Yeah the SE-1000 would be awesome!!

That thing is all class. I wonder what something like this would cost today with the crazy gold prices.

Now where is the picture of that gold plated Single Power amp....

The arc's are slightly different between different versions. So 1977 vs. 1982 etc. The Gamma arc's are also slightly different but will work for the Lambdas.

Liquid Shit if you will...

Ok.... I'll admit that was funny.

Bob does love his LCD-4's so I'm not surprised by the findings but as for the amps, what AMB unit is that? M3? Could be very close to the Deckard in terms of performance.

Let's not talk about the 60's PCB's...

Hehe good point...

I have a few old arc's that have been salvaged from headphones which were too far gone but that's the only ones I know about. The cable issue is far worse though as they often see so much abuse.

I don't think many would agree on that...

Smash with a hammer and hand him some 007's...

We are shit out of luck on the old parts though I believe Stax has a lot of that stuff still in stock or it could be made in small quantities easily. I mean how hard would it be to make 300 normal bias Lambda cables which are 95% the same as the 207 cable? The problem with something like this is knowing the older models well enough to supply people with the stuff they need. The distributors fuck up the current lineup when it comes to parts so I have little hope for them knowing a Gamma cable from a SR-5N cable. I've toyed with the idea for so long to import Stax into Iceland but I doubt they would want their biggest critic anywhere near this. Still they could make a nice amount of money servicing the old units with minimal outlay... Ohh and thanks for that Justin. Did you ever get those 009's fixed after the NYC meet? I could take a look at them when I'm in the US next month...

I'm certain they can do a good amp but they are severely limited in terms of parts they can use, weight, power consumption and just how complex it can be. Well that and they are way too obsessed with using something "cool" and not ultimate performance. I doubt anybody thinks the 727 NO-NFB is a brilliant plan...

It's not that bad but they have probably replaced a lot of drivers over the years. Well that and headbands...that thing is just a pile of fail.

I'm pretty sure that the loose bias contact is the reason for some of the imbalance issues. Not sure why they would use such a weak mechanical contact there..

I agree, the wool is necessary to keep those drivers in check. I have a spare SR-3 somewhere so I might try something with it.

I just love his endless obsession with fucking over his customers. Make a small change, yay!! a new version which makes the old one worth even less.

Do wonder if he's finally cased up that latest tubed monstrosity. It's only been about two years on the meet circuit and never in a box...

I certainly have no wish to ever see one of these again, let alone hear one, but if anybody has pics of the new version it would be simple enough to see if anything has changed. This is Cavalli though, any claims of improvements should be taken with a container load of salt. They just lie...flat out lie.. to the consumer so why would this time be any different.

I would have to check for that but given that this an off the shelf design, any driver issue would have been quickly resolved. Also the Denafrips dac tested there is clearly different and substantially so. Rather different string setup.