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Ditto!!!

It's even prettier in person. So...when can I get one?

The DC-DC converter.

Make sure to measure the noise as that's the main problem with these

You can also adjust the spring to give it a bit more lift. Some nice pliers and you are good to go.

I wouldn't bother moving half of this stuff. Seriously the Wilsons are pretty much the definition of just set and forget. Me thinks Kevin needs some Sound Lab U series speakers with the frame filled with something super dense.

There are some gigantic circular hole saws on ebay and while being pretty shitty, they work ok for some light cutting. I'd only use them on aluminum though.

Have you tried simply turning the spring inside the earpads?

If anybody thinks I won't say something to them in person...well you'd think wrong. As for HF, well it is run by shills so things are never going to change but what they might be upset about is shitheads like this one cutting into their bottom line.

High end as in probably worse than the cheap shit? Yeah no...

Just read through some of that...fuck some people over there would be in so much trouble over this.

Ohh boy, look at this, our new favorite shill is at it yet again: https://www.head-fi.org/f/threads/angstrom-stella-headphone-amplifier.846641/ Hmmm should we just report him and get it over with or spam the thread with links to this one?

My "guy" in Japan.

I've already put in an order for one so a full dissection is coming as soon as I can have one shipped to Kevin. The 600LE used ECC99's... only the T2 has the 6922's in the input section.

The M3 and the Audeze chinese POS are pretty similar designs so it wouldn't surprise me if they sound really similar.

From what I understand Focal got very angry about this and there has been a sudden shift from "best evah" to "maybe not" in attitude about them. Might also just be the regular FOTM thing.

So Stax claimed that the HV supplies are regulated? I will have to call bullshit on that as the HV supplies have two 220uf/400V caps in them (clearly seen in the Japanese video) so no headroom to regulate a +/-350V supply. Now there is a single heatsink in there so they might be regulating something for the tube front end, who knows but the main rails are not regulated. Could be the DC heater supply for the front end... As for the rest of it, to me it looks like a 727 with a new tube based front end and all the NPN HV resistors swapped out for parallel run SMD devices, probably 2SC6127. Aluminum backed PCB and then three or so used instead of the single TO220 devices. As for the size, looks a bit deeper than than the T1W but same width.

There has been a lot of drama behind this so it will be an interesting read.

The 2SA1968's would most run just fine at 1000V (some even at 1050V) so there is always some margin built into these parts. That said, I wouldn't bet on them all being able to handle it.

Well there is always the option of just running it at 1000V and crossing fingers and toes...

That might work as the mesh is super soft. That said, it isn't all that hard to just swap out the dust cover for some scrap plastic. It's just pvc so the small bags you get at the grocery store should work just fine.

This is great, now we have somebody in charge of documentation!!! Seriously though, excellent work and not nearly enough multimeters.

You can separate the grill from the driver but yeah, odds are that you will destroy the dust cover as well. It is attached to the thin aluminum ring that is between the grill and the front stator mounting plate.

Well it is Cavalli so it being shit is a given.

Definitely the same heatsinks as the 727 too.