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After four years with the Apple Watch, have been eyeing automatics for about a month. I'm not a watch guy and won't be collecting, but I'm from Ohio and like Panerai, so...

Ok, the stax mafia has spent quite a bit of time with the kse1500 first the headphones are 200v bias. The kingsound must have been modified to lower bias voltage otherwise these headphones will eventually pop. yes the kse1500/kse1200 is an extremely low power classAB amplifier with significant distortion. But great battery life. The kingsound is a chip amp driving transformers. Might actually sound better, but definitely not stax mafia approved. A really good battery powered portable electrostatic amp is harder than you might think. The stax d10 is another example that has issues.

Man, that's some quality shit there Nice solder blob on the left side. Thinker: Excellent built. Cue up some Talking Heads - Burning Down The House...

ok, this scares the shit out of me. hennyo level of quality here. Second pic, the power supply in the upper right is an ebay high voltage switcher that's $7 I know its $7 because I bought some for the up and coming stax mafia portable, and its actually a pretty decent supply but can handle only about 5 watts of output power. You can see two more under the fan. Fan is required because those things get hot especially when you try to push them over 8 watts. And according to people at diyaudio that use them for tube preamps, the main diodes blow up at 10 watts. No way is this a kgsshv-carbon in terms of power. Barely 10% if that. Also limited to about 400v A pair of switchers on either side of the pot drive the HV supplies. So Switchers driving switchers. Not the most quiet of things. And the rest of it, yikes power supply pics here

https://www.head-fi.org/threads/the-stax-thread-iii.677809/page-1198#post-15108864 Ok, it's not often we see this level of shit... but holy fuck on a stick. So this is claimed to be an "improved Carbon" but the only improvement I can see is an added chance to burn your house down or give you a nasty shock. Seriously, this is apex level shit and how anybody would ship something like this out...is just beyond me. Also, gotta love "thinker" who consistently shows any possibility to do just that....

That pic looks quite a bit like a younger John Lydon......I've got nothing more interesting to contribute.....

This video makes no sense. Kind of like a Storm Thorgerson album cover come to life.

Thanks. They certainly make a heavy watch.

Rhododendron forest in Ireland. The Moeraki Boulders, New Zealand. Moon Setting over the Oahu North Shore. Click for slightly larger.

Thanks! Somehow I don't see this model whilst searching through the g shock website

New one for me.

Restored Pioneer SX-1050.

Interesting stuff from the motherland (the article referenced in the comments on Japanese Music Coffeehouses is worth a glance too).