The Headcase Stax thread

[mypasswordis]

And anyone think buying a Koss ESP6A would be a good idea? Kinda need a beater pair to test my future 'stat amps anyway.

A new member of my vintage electrostatic headphone family will be arriving, hopefully in time for Xmas.

No I wasn't intending to win the auction.

[spritzer]

Be prepared for the pain!!! That is one seriously uncomfortable headphone. I'd recommend a ESP9 headband (the only way I could even wear them) and you will have to open them up and dig out the decomposing foam.

[mypasswordis]

I'm going to take out the circuit boards and transformers as soon as I can, and replace the cable with a ESP950 extension cable with a WPI plug. Hopefully the headband won't be so bad and actually fit my head... but if it doesn't work, of course I will have to find some other headband to attach. Sigh, always so much work for every headphone I get, I don't know why I put up with it every time.

[spritzer]

The hassle is half the fun. It took a long time to refurb the ESP6, first I gutted them completely and installed a Magnavox cable to use them with Stax equipment. It was much later that I moved the internal parts into a separate box after going over them completely.

In other news, I'm now listening to the first of two Lundahl LL1627 based transformer boxes. The transformers are setup for a 1:17 ratio and that works just fine with my Gainclone. I'll have to do some more testing with the flea powered stuff though as the other box will be used with only 8W. I'll post pics when I can bring myself to unplug it...

[mypasswordis]

I could be wrong but I think the ESP6 has a lot of potential (for a closed headphone) once you take out all that junk.

Pretty sure the spike in the HF is caused by reflection of the backwave from all that crap so it should flatten out after taking them out and also applying some backwave sucking material to the nice big cups. But I shouldn't try to make it sound too good or I'll be sad when I blow it up.

[spritzer]

The do sound ok but flat PCB's directly behind the drivers aren't doing them any favors...

[mypasswordis]

Yup that's what I meant by 'all that crap'.

Lundahl trafo boxes ftw, eventually I'll want to make one too. The problem is that I have too many headphones with weird (non-Stax) bias voltages now.. ESP6, ESP10, Jecklins, ET1000...

[Mario_Fpolis]

Hello guys.

After more than six months lurking around, it is time for my first post, and nothing better than do it in Stax thread, seeking advice for an upgrade.

After a long time with a very simple Stax set I realized electrostatic is the way to go, so I am trying to plan a major upgrade – for my bucket at last.

I own a SR303/SRM212 combo and am planing on an O2mk2 + a proper amp, money as a major limiter, so I thought Woo GES was a good choice.

How does it look to you? Will they rock? Or fusion, or pop or indie? Or should I reach for another set? I dunno about anything better/different from my own setup, cause here there are only a few owners of electros and we never had a chance to meet.

Since I am Brazilian and here we don

[manaox2]

GES does not sound like a truly proper O2 amp in my opinion. Even a cheaper SRM-717 might do a better job.

[mypasswordis]

Will they rock? Or fusion, or pop or indie?

no

[Mario_Fpolis]

Many thanks!

So, Manaox2 and mypasswordis root. pointed out very incisevily that I am looking in the wrong direction.

But since I am blind, is it possible to go further on the subject? May you show me the light, brothers?

Or "nay" is the answer again?

I need some -adult - education, please. I think I gave away my age, 42, quoting Hall & Oates.

Plain and simple and very, vwey honest: Look, here it is IMPOSSIBLE to listen to quality gears and I am tired of usual BS and expending money in foolish gears. I want O2 because Stax rules - even a simple 303, and I trully think that I can have a hi-fi gear around this hp, but I need some guidance.

Sorry for any misspelling, but here is 10:30pm and we had a bottle of wine and wife and kid are sleeping...

Thanks!

[cetoole]

For - adult - education, I would suggest maybe redtube, but regarding Stax, you are definitely looking in the right place for the O2, because it seriously rules. Just the amp which needs some work, maybe a 717 or something. DIY is out, how about a KGSS or BHSE?

[mypasswordis]

redtube really sucks, try youjizz, youporn, xvideos, maybe pornhub

[Mario_Fpolis]

You guys are fun.

I really need to stretch my english to follow you, follow me...

KGSS seems to be the way, then!

Well, back to the bench, and in six months I

[manaox2]

I think he may have been hoping for something more homoerotic.

redtube really sucks, try youjizz, youporn, xvideos, maybe pornhub

Tapatalk

[Dusty Chalk]

Now I've got Hall & Oates stuck in my head.

And that's why the student body's got a bad reputation <oh yeah, oh yeah>

What they need is adult education

Back to school it's a bad situation <oh yeah, oh yeah>

But what you want is an adult...

[Mario_Fpolis]

Oh yeah ,oh yeah....

Do you need me to quote some Huey Lewis and the News?? Naturally?

[Dusty Chalk]

Please, no.

[Mario_Fpolis]

So, folks, since we are all having a good time, will a SRM212 pump a O2???

[mypasswordis]

So, folks, since we are all having a good time, will a SRM212 pump a O2???

it'll pump an O2... full of bias

[Duggeh]

So, folks, since we are all having a good time, will a SRM212 pump a O2???

No.

Nice with an SR-202 though.

[Elephas]

I want O2 because Stax rules

Didn't you see all the humbly truthful "Sennheiser Rules" posts made by those unfortunately few, but brave and honorable individuals, in this very thread, courageously willing to shout truth and stand up against the hurtful so-called self-proclaimed "Stax Mafia"?

[Mario_Fpolis]

No, I did not, and forgive me for that. To be very honest, I do have 3 dynamic phones, HD 650, DT 880 600 Ohms and DT 770 at work and love them all.

Nevertheless, Stax rules.

At last, brave, honorable, truthful, all of them words resemble Don Quixote fighting windmills, which is a very reasonable language figure in this particular case.

[Torpedo]

So you're suggesting the Stax are giants to only the eyes of a few, but in truth they're piles of stone like windmills? Like that image

[Mario_Fpolis]

Whatever rocks your boat, man!

But, in the right context, I meant that only a lunatic would go against a steady and truthful thing like "the best" to withstand no point at all, but to be crazy. On the other hand, to do this must be assured to any and everyone.

Trying to be serious, now, for my liking, rock, fusion, plenty of guitars, well recorded CDs - is there anyone that likes a bad recorded disc? - Stax is a win.

Listen to Derek Trucks, George Benson, Joe Walsh, Transatlantic, O.S.I. in Stax is pure heaven. Agree?!?!

But Porcupine Tree is still better on dynamics, at least on my very humble Stax set.

May I put here a picture of my recent discs, that arrived today?