Leaderboard

It seems to work great! I am not a huge fan of using a long screw driver to attach the top - having pre-drilled pilot holes would be nice. Other than that; it’s bolted to the ground and super stable. I sanded and put a coat of finish on my phono preamp faces just now!

Gods oinks, another birthday already?

Happy Birthday Peter!

I wasn't immediately grabbed by the Digitone (too many menus and shift-key combinations, I don't have enough attention span), so I'm trading it for a Moog DFAM. I should take possession Friday or Monday. Looking forward to making some chaos with it.

Just put up some shelves and cabinets in the shop space preparing for making things again!

Have a very Purple day!

Happy Birthday!!!

Happy Birthday, Dusty!

Happy birthday, Dusty! Hope the day is full of purple guitars.

Have a great and very dusty birthday, Dusty!

Happy Birthday!

Yes, that is still the case. In fact, it's worse in a way, because in the old model the y-forks were made of plastic and you could muscle the earcup past them (though they had a tendency to snap if you did), but becase this one is metal, you can't. However the new design allows for a wider range of motion, and the fit is definitely better than in the old one. I'm guessing someone with a 3d printer can probably make a y-fork that bypasses the tab and allows for full outward articulation. I know SoCas makes Stax mods, maybe they can do it, but I haven't contacted them about it. It'll have to be both taller and wider, since the earcup itself is wider at the inner side than the fork. Edit: Look like they already make something similar. No comments on style...

Happy birthday brother Peter. Enjoy sumthin okay?

Happy Birthday!

Cheers!

They almost seem to pop up yearly.

Cheers Peter -- Happy Birthdays!!

Happy birthday, DC!!!

Happy Birthday!

Happy Birthday, Peter! Hope that your cats are throwing you a big party.

Happy Birthday!

Enjoy your special day!

Happy Birthday Dusty!

Happy birthday, baby.

Happy Birthday, Dusty!!! I wish you have a blast of a day.

Happy Birthday!

Happy Birthday 🎂

This reminds me of a gymnast I met in a bar one time...

Tomorrow I am going to cut up some remaining Baltic Birch ply to make some frames for speaker grills. That will involve a bit of clamping and screwing here and there. So, stay tuned!

^^ Thanks. I've got more cleaning to do and then need to measure and do some layout but there's definitely something like this in my future.

Me too!

"Isn’t This a Lovely Day (To Be Caught in the Rain)?" by Irving Berlin

Oh dear, there may be drones ahead. Having fun with a complex oscillator that I've been waiting to get my hands on. Still haven't completely nailed the signal flow, because damn, this thing is complex.

L700 Mk2 impressions based on less than an hour of ownership: First of all, the fit is very much improved. The Mk1 had an idiotic design where the top of the earcup couldn't swivel outwards far enough, and it ended up putting too much pressure on the top of the earpad while the bottom wouldn't even seal properly on some people. The Mk2 has a different y-fork, yoke, whatever you want to call it, which is bent inwards and lets the earcups swivel more, and as suspected it creates a better fit. There's still a bit too much pressure on the temples but it's tolerable and at least it seals. And hopefully we'll have no more flimsy plastic pieces breaking. So, it's a step in the right direction. Those same words can apply to the sound too. The overall tuning seems warmer, tighter, and more focused. I had to EQ the treble down on the Mk1 to make it tolerable, but the Mk2 so far doesn't need it. It's also less diffuse and overly ethereal, more focused and defined, and the bass doesn't have the big midbass bump anymore and is tighter. About the only complaint I have is that the midrange weirdness from the old version is still there, and vocal tonality just sounds off. But a small dip in the EQ around 1.2khz seems to reduce this, so whatever problem is going on seems to be somewhere around 1-1.5khz. The presence region also sounds a bit recessed, kinda like the SR-007 but not to the same extent. Overall, it's definitely better. Sounds a bit more normal, more like vintage Stax and less like bright, alien modern day Stax - but not totally fixed yet.