The Headcase Stax thread

[Nomad]

I must say I always found the HE90 extremely comfortable, if at the max extension for me. I have quite a big head. You could think it might have something to do with having a big brain and a superior mind and intelligence.


You would be wrong, though.

[GPH]

Originally Posted by Nomad

Yes, that thread pretty much covers it all.

Ah... The KGSS DX Edition... Great memories. Justin did an excellent work overcoming all my space constrains, and the amp was showing all the quality standars and performance we came to expect from Justin.

I ended selling it. Because I was young and stupid by then. I know better now...

How much did it cost originally?

[Nomad]

Originally Posted by GPH

How much did it cost originally?

I know I'm going to sound totally stupid but I have no idea. That was a few years ago and I couldn't find my email backups for that period of time. A couple of months ago I was looking for some other mails from the same period of time and I couldn't find the backup CD with them. I moved houses since and they sure got misplaced somewhere.

I can look a bit more just in case but I wouldn't hold my breath. Sorry for the bad news.

[Icarium]

What's up with the ultra small space constraints? Is it just the price of UK real estate?

[Nomad]

Originally Posted by Icarium

What's up with the ultra small space constraints? Is it just the price of UK real estate?

Especially in London!
Besides, that one was for my bedroom and I wanted to have it on my bedside table.
On top of that I was renting/moving quite a lot by then and it is not great to carry big amps around.

[n_maher]

Got tracking information today for the SRM1 MKII and the SR Lambda Pros, they should be here Friday. Yipee!

[Nomad]

Sorry, could someone point me to that particular place that was one of the first selling the new O2s? It was mentioned in this thread a couple of times, some picture was taken from the site, and there was even a link for it but I've been looking in lots of pages (sort of random order, but for sure more than half of the 100) and I couldn't find it. I was wondering what would be a good place for getting them if I decide to go for the black new ones.

Thanks in advance. A search wouldn't help much here as I don't remember the name of the shop and in any case the search feature would only giving me back the tittle of this thread.

Did I mention I hate long threads? Specially the interesting ones that I can't afford dismissing. Really hard to retrieve information afterwards.

[Icarium]

Originally Posted by Nomad

Especially in London!
Besides, that one was for my bedroom and I wanted to have it on my bedside table.
On top of that I was renting/moving quite a lot by then and it is not great to carry big amps around.

Grin, I forget where Rob N lives but given that he has like 5 gigantor singlepower amps I gotta assume his living space must be like a sauna but perhaps he doesn't live in London I forget.

[slwiser]

Originally Posted by n_maher

Got tracking information today for the SRM1 MKII and the SR Lambda Pros, they should be here Friday. Yipee!

Congrats! You will enjoy them.

[Nomad]

Originally Posted by Icarium

Grin, I forget where Rob N lives but given that he has like 5 gigantor singlepower amps I gotta assume his living space must be like a sauna but perhaps he doesn't live in London I forget.

He doesn't live in London and he has quite a lot of space, closer to usual american standards.

[Dusty Chalk]

Originally Posted by Icarium

Grin, I forget where Rob N lives but given that he has like 5 gigantor singlepower amps I gotta assume his living space must be like a sauna but perhaps he doesn't live in London I forget.

He also probably doesn't have them all on at the same time. Presumably.

[The Monkey]

Originally Posted by n_maher

Got tracking information today for the SRM1 MKII and the SR Lambda Pros, they should be here Friday. Yipee!

Woohoo! Looking forward to impressions Nate.

[n_maher]

Originally Posted by The Monkey

Woohoo! Looking forward to impressions Nate.

Yeah, me too. Unfortunately I may have come upon a semi-pressing purchase that needs to be made which will require the liquidation of one of the stat rigs. Given that I don't have jack for time to sit down and listen to either of them in the near future I'm stuck with the quandary of which to keep. The all Stax rig is pretty elegant in the simplicity of it but seems to me that the general consensus is that the Koss phones might scale better.

[hirsch]

Originally Posted by n_maher

Yeah, me too. Unfortunately I may have come upon a semi-pressing purchase that needs to be made which will require the liquidation of one of the stat rigs.

You're going to give up a stat rig for this?

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[n_maher]

Originally Posted by hirsch

You're going to give up a stat rig for this?

I was thinking more along the lines of this:

[thrice]

that's a funny looking headphone nate.

[n_maher]

It's for cleaning your ears.

[JBLoudG20]

Originally Posted by thrice

that's a funny looking headphone nate.

[guzziguy]

Originally Posted by n_maher

It's for cleaning your ears.

I know of several NSESBs that need one of those.

[spritzer]

SR-Ω/007 hybrid in the house and playing on my head. Being the OCD nutcase I am I completely disassembled them and took pictures which I will post later. The old drivers look to be in perfect condition but that means nothing as a fraction of a millimeter is all it takes to fuck them up. I will work on them when I have time but I will most likely keep them as spares if I do manage to find out what is wrong with the broken one.

The new drivers are SR-007A units and not the old ones. Stax had left the cable cutout open so there was a massive opening for the drivers to went. Knowing that I don't like the SR-007A with the port open, I plugged it with some blutack but might try them later with it open. The seal isn't perfect but the SR-Ω design never had any squeal issues so I just left it at that. This set has a new arc assembly (the S/N sticker is in the wrong place, a dead give away) as well as new-ish earpads.

As for the sound then my impressions will be crippled by the lack of a Blue Hawaii to test them with. My old unit has gone back to Justin and the BHSE isn't ready yet let alone my DIY one. A quick listen out of the computer rig shows them to be quite similar to the SR-007 though less focused. Bass is impressive out of the SRM-1 and and only a smidgen of blur at pretty loud levels playing very bass heavy music. The top end is extended but the amp is clearly holding them back here so I will reserve any judgment. The midrange is excellent as is to be expected and the soundstage is similar to my other SR-Ω though smaller.

Originally Posted by Nomad

I must say I always found the HE90 extremely comfortable, if at the max extension for me. I have quite a big head. You could think it might have something to do with having a big brain and a superior mind and intelligence.


You would be wrong, though.

I big head is only good when you are just shy of 2m like me and keep knocking it into things.