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Colorado's Great Sand Dunes. Heidelberg, Germany. Click for slightly larger.

Well looky here.

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...

I'm so glad that I am old enough to tell IT and any institution I work for to go pound dirt or I will bring in my grants as a private consultant. Science is not for political hacks, i.e campus administrators.

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....

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

Got my new i9 iMac installed, up and running. 8 core i9 processor with Radian Pro Vega 48, 512 ssd, 64 G ram (2 sticks so I can go up to 128 if I go crazy). My external drives are in a Blackmagic Multidock 2 (thunderbolt 2). A Caldigit TS2 for an extra Ethernet connection for my Metric Halo interface plus some of my numerous USB thingys. The clean install went pretty smoothly and I've got it down to just a few days of hell. So far the Logic Pro X benchmarks I've run show that it'll run twice as many virtual instrument tracks (122 vs 58) compared to my old girl (2012 Mac Pro 6 core). Running nice and cool (I only heard the fan once during some installs and it was barely audible). I absolutely love the 5k 27 inch but I've been using a dying 24 inch, old Asus ProArt for freakin ever!

David Berman, singer/songwriter of indie band Silver Jews, dead way too young at 52.