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  1. Yay! Snow is here! Pic was taken a few hours ago - probably 4-5" at this point.
    6 points
  2. The comfort is excellent and the sound is also excellent if just a tad too bright. Easy enough to fix with the KSE1500 EQ... Much better than the Stax stuff but at a hefty premium.
    2 points
  3. Man, too bad Grahame isn't getting in on this... BMW e30 Drift Car would demolish his Lada
    1 point
  4. Grill cover would cost more than that thing is worth.
    1 point
  5. It just started snowing here. We're on tap to get a wintery mix overnight which is a nice way of saying it'll likely be absolute shit tomorrow morning.
    1 point
  6. Oliver Lieb's home studio. SF, 1 week apart.
    1 point
  7. Isn't everybody glad that I'm crazy enough to buy this stuff and have Kevin rip it apart?
    1 point
  8. yep, pretty much that schematic. pull up resistor is 1 meg. false advertising, shows a rca to mini, not supplied, shows 1/4 jack not supplied. comes with usb cable. bias resistor is 20 meg. power supply is fully regulated, something the sr-001 was certainly not.output stage bias is 200 microamps. I think that this needs a lot more input voltage than it should. also no volume control, so designed to hook to something with a volume knob. made in Taiwan. no names anywhere. after a few hours of warmup, still sounds like absolute crap. No way is this worth $700. or the $1k+ the guy on ebay is selling it for.
    1 point
  9. Thanks, guys. Blueman2, the custom electrostatic drivers are indeed my creation -- they were inspired by Chinsettawong in his DIY Electrostatic Headphones forum on Head-fi.org (https://www.head-fi.org/threads/my-diy-electrostatic-headphones.498292/), and they were the reason why I started building electrostatic amps in the first place. When I saw that thread several years ago, I bought an old stax SRM-1/Mk2 from eBay to start my DIY headphone attempt, wasn't happy with the old stax amp, so built the KGSSHV... It's been an ongoing fall down the rabbit hole since then. The drivers were made from pcb boards and mylar film with a coating of staticide 6500 antistatic spray on the film. I'm waiting to get access to a machine shop or at least a cnc router again so I can build the cups for them -- or at least get some time again to finish up the wood cups that chinsettawong gave me so I can finally case some of my drivers. In the meantime, though, I have some acrylic headphone cups I've just finished cutting that will finally serve as my version 1.0 of the DIY headphones. (will post pics soon) I know most of you guys have the top-of-the-line Stax headphones and look down on the SR-404 and 300 series, but that's all I have, and these DIY drivers blow those old Stax headphones away in both transparency and soundstage. JoaMat, the relay board is just a stock selector board to let me switch between the balanced (tiny XLR) and unbalanced (phono) input. That and the SumR transformer are the only major components that's stock -- I made everything else from scratch including the stax connectors, pot board, etc. The stax connectors were made from stocks of teflon and have gold-plated brass vacuum tube sockets for connectors. I even molded the stax connector on the cable from scratch: the flat cable itself was a Koss extension cable; the connector on the end was made from pieces of brass rods, a teflon core I milled on a table-top cnc, and covered in a cast hard urethane casing. I DIY cast the mold out of silicon from the end of the cable on my SR-404.
    1 point
  10. It's still technically summer, eh?
    1 point
  11. Side benefit of all the late snow, the ability to snowshoe with the kids. Got andrew out for a little walk in the woods this afternoon.
    1 point
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