The Headcase Stax thread

[spritzer]

KGSS with the Mk1 is awesome so the Mk2 should be great as well.

[The Monkey]

I keep the 'stats in my harem relatively untainted

Yeah, but try as you might, they still sneak out the window at night to do the unspeakable with other 'stats.

[mypasswordis]

Naughty little vixens, they are. But I will forgive them as long as they continue to make sweet love to my ears and respond to my tender embraces.

[luvdunhill]

Yeah, but try as you might, they still sneak out the window at night to do the unspeakable with other 'stats.

how do you think the ortho was born? damn dynamic whore... the 'stat didn't stand a chance until it was too late.

[mypasswordis]

I will now forever remember the ortho as the bastard child of a 'stat and a dynamic.

[morphsci]

^^^ Isn't that the K340?

[luvdunhill]

^^^ Isn't that the K340?

no, K340 is more like a tranny

[mypasswordis]

Hm, that's more like the 'stat and the dynamic are Siamese twins, I would think.

[Hopstretch]

no, K340 is more like a tranny

Input or output?

[morphsci]

no, K340 is more like a tranny

[mypasswordis]

Quick q: If there is a small gap between the driver and the metal baffle, would this basically be bass reflex? I'm trying to understand the bass I'm getting out of the L Sig.

[luvdunhill]

Input or output?

that's precisely the problem. they're not well-marked and it's easy to get confused.

[spritzer]

Quick q: If there is a small gap between the driver and the metal baffle, would this basically be bass reflex? I'm trying to understand the bass I'm getting out of the L Sig.

In a way yes but the key to good bass from planars is to employ an infinite baffle (or as close to it as you can with speakers) as backwave cancellation is is the big problem here.

[mypasswordis]

In a way yes but the key to good bass from planars is to employ an infinite baffle (or as close to it as you can with speakers) as backwave cancellation is is the big problem here.

I was just wondering if I possibly didn't stick the driver to the baffle completely tightly, causing a bit of rumble in the low bass. I think I was just hearing things. As to the infinite baffle approach, do you think putting some fiberglass behind the drivers like in the Lambda and Lambda Pro would help?

[cetoole]

I was just wondering if I possibly didn't stick the driver to the baffle completely tightly, causing a bit of rumble in the low bass. I think I was just hearing things. As to the infinite baffle approach, do you think putting some fiberglass behind the drivers like in the Lambda and Lambda Pro would help?

Infinite baffle = sealing earpads with no ports.

[mypasswordis]

So controlling backwave doesn't factor into it? Got it.

[cetoole]

The point of infinite baffle is that the backwave can never interact with the frontwave. In the speaker world, there are people who use a wall of their house as the baffle, with the speaker tightly sealed to a cutout in said wall. Front of the speaker goes into the listening room, back either outside or into some other area of the house.

[mypasswordis]

I don't think that's the case with headphones, though, since we're not putting speakers into a wall and doing the hand blocking thing still has a big effect on sound.

[spritzer]

By putting the hand behind the speakers you are reflecting the backwave and it is messing with the sound. Even on the ported SR-007Mk2 this is still a factor.

[mypasswordis]

Well what I'm trying to say is since my hand reflects backwave so well, doesn't that mean the Lambda cage, even if it is quite open, is still reflecting some of the backwave back?