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okay, I was just curious and knew that it had to be just placebo from having the volume pot cranked up higher. Its hard to gauge these things when the amp starts to solidify images past 9 o'clock. Shows how important a difference in volume can make when listening or comparing equipment. It also shows how much I need a BH, lol:p

You can mitigate the effect of different volume levels by listening and comparing several times, switching back and forth at varying volume levels. Compare A at a higher volume versus B and then switch around, B at a higher volume than A. Then try to volume match. Then compare both at low volume, both at high, etc.

Yay, Team Blue Hawaii!

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It's a shame that the amps have been butchered like that. :( The caps are old so they have to go but why on earth would they swap out the transistors?

further down he writes:

Of course I have thought about You Audiophiles, whom swear to complete Originality. I have therefore had my specialist Roar Malmin measure every single of the old Transistors and thus saved all the ones, which measured within the normal spectre of these types of transistors. This came to exactly ONE set of transistors for ONE Amp

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I am curious about the extension cable I just got with my SR-Omega purchase because it is round like a power cable and the female end has 6 holes like the Normal bias plug but the male end is just a 5 pin Pro bias plug. So what is the deal with that? Older version, obviously, but why the two different ends?

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I am curious about the extension cable I just got with my SR-Omega purchase because it is round like a power cable and the female end has 6 holes like the Normal bias plug but the male end is just a 5 pin Pro bias plug. So what is the deal with that? Older version, obviously, but why the two different ends?

I believe what you have is this, right? And the reason for the 6-pin jack is that it was what they had. A horrible idea really since it would allow you to plug any normal bias can accidentally into a pro bias jack. :eek:

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You can use both normal bias and pro bias phones with it but you can kill a normal bias phone as well, if you plug it into a pro bias socket. It is probably not a wide PC-OCC just the normal one so - in theory - it should degrade the SQ a bit unlike the current extension cables.

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further down he writes:

Of course I have thought about You Audiophiles, whom swear to complete Originality. I have therefore had my specialist Roar Malmin measure every single of the old Transistors and thus saved all the ones, which measured within the normal spectre of these types of transistors. This came to exactly ONE set of transistors for ONE Amp

I would trust any specialist named Roar.

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If it is brown then you have the SRE-15n which does have have PC-OCC conductors and is a very nice cable. The reason for the different connectors on each end is simple, make one extension that fits both types of bias since Stax was selling NB phones until 1990 at least. This does mean you can plug the NB phones into a Pro outlet... :palm:

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I believe what you have is this, right? And the reason for the 6-pin jack is that it was what they had. A horrible idea really since it would allow you to plug any normal bias can accidentally into a pro bias jack. :eek:

That's it! Thanks Nate, and thanks for the assist, Birgir. Padam, you are covered in failed, but thanks for trying.

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Not sure how I'm wrong

Spritzer was trying to clarify the fact that at that time this cable was made, Stax had already introduced the 5-pin jack. I think we both intrepreted your comment "And the reason for the 6-pin jack is that it was what they had" as meaning that Stax only had 6-pin jacks and the 5-pin jack didn't exist yet.

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Spritzer was trying to clarify the fact that at that time this cable was made, Stax had already introduced the 5-pin jack. I think we both intrepreted your comment "And the reason for the 6-pin jack is that it was what they had" as meaning that Stax only had 6-pin jacks and the 5-pin jack didn't exist yet.

Yup

F.S. Stax SR-404/SRM-006t ?

Stax noob..How's this setup?

You can do better for the price. A SRM-T1/Lambda Signature combo can be found for that price.

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I think they need to duke it out. In one corner we have Spritzer with a light saber constructed of huge (charged) capacitors glued together, and in the other corner, Nate with a some sort of custom octopus extension (like the good doctor in Hellraiser2) covered with hole saws and drill bits, driven with a cordless drill.

It will be a battle of epic proportions!

Okay; sorry, I likey the si-fi.... 8~)

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