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Old 06-04-2008, 09:43 PM
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Crap! soon I'm going to be the only one on H-C without an Omega. How will I ever fit in with the cool kids....
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Crap! soon I'm going to be the only one on H-C without an Omega. How will I ever fit in with the cool kids....
Have no fear, we can hang out with our inferior budget stats. No O2 in my future.
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Old 06-04-2008, 09:54 PM
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... and one more without O2s. I've had a pair for a few weeks and tried to like them like no phones in years. A tad too polite for me with every amp/source I've heard (but still haven't had the BH opportunity).

So I've decided to stop at the Lambdas. Sigs coming to compare to the Pros. Any ideas what to expect besides a little more detail and a little less musicality? And I still grab the 5nb/Golds often when I want a little Grado electrostatic moment. Nothing wrong with budget Stax.
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Old 06-04-2008, 09:56 PM
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No Omega here yet... but.....the time is coming when I will not be able to say that.
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Old 06-04-2008, 09:57 PM
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Crap! soon I'm going to be the only one on H-C without an Omega. How will I ever fit in with the cool kids....
Trade in one of them flappy paddle AKG earcages you've got.

You've got some O2 pads on your Smegma aint you? Thats part O2 ownership, just buy the rest of the bits in instalments.
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Old 06-04-2008, 10:05 PM
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... and one more without O2s. I've had a pair for a few weeks and tried to like them like no phones in years. A tad too polite for me with every amp/source I've heard (but still haven't had the BH opportunity).
I really think it's the amp that makes or breaks the O2. Using the transformer it's anything but polite even at lower listening volume. I remember the same thing when I heard it with a KGSS.
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Old 06-04-2008, 10:07 PM
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Funnily enough, I want to try the Sigma Pro before the Omegas. The Sigmas are too wacky to ignore.
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Funnily enough, I want to try the Sigma Pro before the Omegas. The Sigmas are too wacky to ignore.
They have an odd headstage, but I rather like them on certain genres.

I'm still holding an HFer's for him, but I've had no amp since he sold his in January.
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Team budget stax ftw!

I've all but given up on the sigma pros, few and far between and asking prices are daylight robbery when you do happen upon one
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SRM1/MKII in the house tomorrow, along with a Lambda Pro to go with the Signatures. So from no Stax to lotsa Stax in no time flat. I look forward to posting impressions tomorrow.
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Old 06-05-2008, 12:08 AM
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SRM1/MKII in the house tomorrow, along with a Lambda Pro to go with the Signatures. So from no Stax to lotsa Stax in no time flat. I look forward to posting impressions tomorrow.
Exciting times, I loves all my staxes. I get the distinct impression I'll end up totally planar at some point.
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I've always been on team budget stax since my first >$100 headphone purchase

I keep telling myself that I don't have nearly enough amplification to justify dropping moolah on an O2, and I usually listen... until a pair appeared on YJ for 85000 yen BIN this morning :x
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Old 06-05-2008, 12:55 AM
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Damn Tachikoma, that's cheap. Good find, although we'll now have to shun you and expel you from team budget Stax.
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Damn Tachikoma, that's cheap. Good find, although we'll now have to shun you and expel you from team budget Stax.
Especially when he succumbs to the siren song of the BHSE.
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Wow, that's probably the cheapest I've seen for Omega II. Good catch.

And don't worry, we welcome you with open arms in the Head-case OII/FOTM team.
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Especially when he succumbs to the siren song of the BHSE.
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what are you going to drive them with, Tachikoma?
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By the end of next month, this: http://gilmore.chem.northwestern.edu/head3.htm

... I hope. If it still isn't ready by then, I'll have to stick to my T1, and perhaps the SRD-7mk2 (with only a somewhat faulty Pioneer SA-6200 behind it.)
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