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If the dark foam is missing that's ok but the thin dustcover is needed to protect the drivers.

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If warranty is not that important, it can be had for less than 500$ via Yahoo Japan.

SR-Sigma ESP950 SR-Sigma

According to the few impressions that I found, the 404 Limited probably doesn't worth that much extra money over the 404 (or even the 303) but you may be able to get it cheaper at Yahoo Japan. By the way, there is two there at the moment, if somebody is interested. The old Lambda Signature could also be very interesting and also the Sennheiser HE60 is said to be on the bright side as well. Although it is still very expensive and if something goes wrong with it, it may cost a fortune to repair which is makes it even less appealing than it already is (even so, this is still something I would really like to hear).

I wonder what is the S/N since I read that Stax made some changes to the membrane in the later ones (also, there are ones with aluminium fixation discs instead of plastic ones but that doesn't affect the sound).

Even they admit the difference is very little.

I have a pair of Toshiba tubes sitting there since a while, I am just waiting for a guy to do the biasing, hopefully later this week. But I have doubts it will compensate the lack of power. I am listening to a SR-Lambda now (borrowed), the midrange is just magical, but the sibilance kills me sometimes, my other two phones are better in this respect. I guess I am very sensitive to that.

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ESP950 or Sigma both do that (although the latter is a bit muffled, at least with the T1S, needs moar power )

I would be interested in a LE extension cable as well - but only if it's ever going to be released

I've been thinking on those earpads as well (for a different headphone), should improve the comfort to 10/10 for me, although I guess they are not cheap - maybe a group buy?

Like the did it with the HE60

V12 Vantage isn't bad either.

Gamma Pro will get SR-5 drivers and the rest will be sold

I suggest to ask that on the other forum.

The specs seems to be the same apart from the cable, so I don't know but the drivers are definitely not the same, so the difference should be bigger than between the SR-303 and SR-404. I found a thread at the other forum where they had written that the difference is little between them, so the opinions may vary. audiod's comparison thread about the two

Both the cable (OFC vs. PC-OCC) and the drivers are different, audiod wrote that it is a great value choice if driven by a good amp because it doesn't have the midrange 'etch' of its bigger brothers.

Sooo, should I bother getting a decent silver mini-RCA cable for connecting the Pico and the T1S? At least I could test it directly against the current one which uses the RCA output (Zu Gede).

It is more extended and cleaner.

I'm listening to the Gamma-1 Lite and Pico using two laptops and I wouldn't say the latter crushes the other, but it is undoubtedly better (especially in the bass department). Although I should mention that I tried plugging both the two cables into the Pico (mini-RCA and RCA-RCA so it could be compared side-by-side as well) and I heard absolutely no difference between them. I guess I'll leave the ESP950 on charge for a few hours, it sounded better after a day being constantly powered by the T1S.