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I'll buy one as soon as it is released but I find it kinda funny how far the price has crept up. They were supposed to be well under 2k$ but now they hope they will be less than 3k$...

I finally got the Spider legs for my ESL57's and after some boiled linseed oil and lacquer, they were installed yesterday: It has changed the sound quite a bit but it mostly makes them easier to live with such as cleaning underneath them and stuff like that. The panels are 49 years old at this point so the SQ is suspect but they play amazingly well for their age. Perfect balance with no noise or arcing at all. Next step will be to replace the panels, paint them and have the covers re-anodized black.

It's funny how much easier it is for us to understand the weird dialects of the UK compared to American's...

Madrigal did this back in the day and charges some obscene amount to alter the older products for use in other areas. Well they didn't do this for decades so as soon as ordering from Japan has become easy as pie...they do this. Of course we should be pissed off as it means cheaper amps are now much harder to source. A modded 727 was always a good starter amp so now the used ones with a proper transformer will be come scarce. I did think that the Innerfidelity measurements were off. The SR-1 almost certainly and the 4070 sounds a lot like the one fitted with 507 drivers I had which sounded terrible...

I have a set of these sitting at KG's house and I played with them for a bit. Not bad but the damped ortho sound really isn't for me so I'm probably going to sell them.

Lower capacitance will always help, making the whole system easier to drive. That said, the older cloth cables were mated to drivers with far lower capacitance so they would be about par with the modern stuff. Still it wouldn't hurt to use a lower capacitance cable. Going the whole HE-1 route though is just idiotic. Cramming class A/B drivers (at best) into the capsules and instead carry a pile of signal into the phones is a pretty crappy compromise. Reeks of the usual Sennheiser "we did something cool but utterly stupid (HE90 glass stators)" which they are kinda known for...

Might have shipped like that. 20V balance is nothing to loose sleep over.

No cheap amps from Japan for anybody. I just don't get this shit in this day and age...

As if we needed a reason not to buy a new Stax amp...I was just sent this pic: So they are down to a single 100V primary on the new amps. This is from a 007tA but it uses the same transformer as the 727 so it will be identical.

I don't think there ever was one like that (the SRD-X did use a 1/4" plug though) and you can see the label for the input wiring on the back so this is a mod.

It's the Japanese norm. Ditto for the reversed XLR wiring the use.

Hehe didn't read what was above the pic... Yeah has to be a bad connection...

I assume there is a trace to connect the second output from the rectifier so what is the raw DC on the input cap?

Last time I bought from them it was all authentic, even the often faked J79's. That was a couple of years ago though so things might have changed.

Is that a new SAS service?

It´s good then that I'm taken...

I started out with those but mine are now custom made for me. Not cheap but who cares....

It really isn't. The anti static stuff is just that as it creates a high resistance layer which is perfect for electrostatic use.

you did it correctly, don´t try to take apart the brass rings as it is just a pain

yup, pretty much the only logical cause

Yeah, worrying about 1.5V is pretty dumb...

Yup, those are original ca. 1994 Omega pads.

Sure or Denafrips. I wouldn't spend more than 1k$ now on a dac as things are changing fast.

Yup sure do but this isn't HF or SBAF where being retarded is the norm... Please give me some posts about micro detail, plankton and replacing the cables!!!