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I agree, this is not a classy look, mixing and matching colors like this.

A brown cable would be nice and the swivel being black plastic annoys me. It should be the same brown as the leather to complete the look. The hodgepodge of black and brown on the 007S makes me think of a rebuilt mk1 instead of properly emulating the original look.

If I were able to design new 007, I would use the ODM look shown in the pic, add cable sockets and make the headrest wider, then keep low sensitivity driver with new etched copper stators and OG earpads to maintain the 007 appearance and wearing style while inheriting the vintage driver of stax，that can also keep different from 9 series. The now 007s just gives me a sense of Frankenstein。。。😶

Yeah this isn't great but I just bought one... naturally. I'm really worried about the strength of that swivel mount and the driver changes but I'd love to be proven wrong. A bit cheaper than expected and now they just need to make a brown version of the replacement cable so we can fix the old Mk1's. Also new USB dac and phono stage for the T8000 but who cares really.

Damn, that is really disappointing, the diameter of the stator hole of the new headphone is reduced by 20%, which means the hole is reduced from 1mm on 007 to 0.8mm, the sound-transmitting surface of the stator looks to be larger, 007 was about 54-55mm, the new one looks to be over 60mm, the sensitivity must have been improved, the fabric on the inside of the earpads is breathable, which is probably used to maintain the warm tone of 007.

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Priced lower than I'd expected, less than half of an X9000, so I'd expect an 009s successor to fit it that gap some day.

It’s SR-007S. 😁 https://stax.co.jp/product/sr-007s/

Stax is very stingy with its accessories. Their product positioning strategy is that if the physical specifications of the drivers are similar, the more metal parts, the more adjustable headband functions, and the more leather used, the higher position of the model. At least the headband of the new headphone looks more advanced than that of the 009s. Perhaps it’s a replacement for the 009s, named X8000 or X7000 as a new TOTL product that integrates old 00X series. 009s was launched 7 years after the release of the 009, 009s is now 7 years old and it is time for an upgrade.

This Here Is Bobby Timmons by Bobby Timmons (1960) https://album.link/7zrr3czbnmxkr Example: Can't we just relax and listen to more Bobby? Sad to think that he only made it to 38yo.

I really hated the whole bums rush to go to war after the tower attacks. Too many good men died or were injured. My younger son did a tour of duty in Iraq. My older son had a complete meltdown over it. He didn't want him to die in that "shithole". We all breathed a sigh of relief when he came home. I firmly believe in holding government accountable. If war can be avoided, it should be. Old guys in suits aren't the ones out there fighting. When it was me wearing the uniform, it was different than when your kids are the ones on the line. I guess I now know how my dad felt when I enlisted. Let's hope cooler heads prevail.

RIP Alfred vinyl

https://www.vice.com/en/article/leica-launches-its-first-35mm-film/ 10$ a roll... I'm sure someone here won't buy 510 rolls, use 2-3, hold on to a few for display, and then wait til they're not being sold and sell them for 50-100$/roll in a few years.

What do you think causes the double resonance in the mids though? I may be the odd man out here cause I don't see too many others complain about it but to me it is very audible in the 2.5 and later models, but less so in the mk1.

It's funny how Stax have never managed to get the earpad mounting right, 009 system is just stupid, the L series even worse plus the pads turn to goo in 5 years. The old adhesive did last when the more modern stuff didn't and leaks all over the place The 007 pads are a pain to install (especially the new replacement units which are badly made and 5x the old price) but I like the spring idea to optimize imaging for different head sizes/shapes

Interesting, but I also expect crappy tuning and 2x the price. Hopefully I'll be pleasantly surprised. They need to revise the pad mounting mechanism too, I'm not an expert here but the spring in the middle of the driver thing seems stupid and I'm guessing that's where the resonances in the mids in the old version come from.

Corporate media is a bit like fast food. In small quantities it won't hurt you, but if that's all you eat, you're gonna get very sick very quickly. By the same token, if it's all you watch, you're gonna end up with a very distorted worldview. Keep in mind though that other people's corporate news doesn't exactly contain less bs and propaganda than ours, it's just different bs and propaganda. You kinda have to cross-check, fact-check, and put two and two together, and then you might end up with something resembling an accurate view. Or not, it's honestly hard these days. I don't think the US public will tolerate boots on the ground in Iran, but Washington is certainly salivating at the thought of bombing them back into the stone age, and is more than happy to let Bibi do the dirty work. Iran is both weak and vulnerable, and the mental image of Hamas getting their hands on a nuke is all the justification they need. At the same time, the mullahs have certainly learned the Libya lesson, nukes are their lifeline and they're gonna try their best to hang onto it, any and all negotiations for them are simply a way to buy more time. It'll be ugly, but probably not as ugly as our worst fears make it. And Iran is not exactly popular in Sunni countries either. (In before eating my words in 3... 2...)

Cheers! Happy birthday Kerry

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Happy Birthday Kerry!

Happy Birthday Kerry!

Happy Birthday Kerry!

Which is a 2-hr follow-up to the amazing 3-hr piece on tariffs in the computer hardware industry below: This piece was big and eye-opening enough that Bloomberg picked it up and brought Steve from GN (aka Tech Jesus) onto their podcast: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-05-07/the-tariff-buzzsaw-is-coming-for-hardcore-gamers