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two pairs for sale, no measurements. They did carry on at length that they were original and not knock offs. Just peeled up one side of the pad. They look to be correct. The lips fold under and adhere to the headphone, forming a pocket for the foam? Mine is long gone, but that looks to be its purpose. This is the 1st sets of sr80 new pads I've ever seen. I guess I should drop the $40. This ain't happening again anytime soon.

I saw a pair of sr-80 square earpads for sale. Supposed to be new. I'll have to look when I get home, but doesn't the sr-80 pads sticky tape on? These appear to mount differently? I haven't pulled mine out for a while.

I've got two black cats. And one of them is truly evil. So Halloween is covered at my house.

Stories of drunken sailors and Marines? I'm shocked I tell you! USMC 1976-1980 Marine Air Wing. I got out with my liver intact.

Looks like this guy hacked pro bias. And it isn't cheap, either

Play loud jazz and follow the rats back to their source???

More stupid over at EBay

Audio note speakers are different. I've listened to them a lot and owned the Snell E models they were based upon years ago. Sometimes I wish I'd just kept them.

Flavor Of The Month. You see a lot of that over at that "other" headphone site. Something is the hot new thing that everybody wants. A month later, nobody cares. Time for a Head-case dictionary?

By the time a lot of us got to the point of owning Stax, there was a lot less hair to deal with. Other than maybe ear hair?

Because this is head-case.

The Rendezvous never clicked with me. Commisary BBQ in Germantown- good BBQ in the Memphis area. The ribs are much moister and meaty. And a round of Gus's chicken always hits the spot.

If it passes the Spritzer test, it will have passed the hardest one. Good luck!!!!!!!!!!

I used to buy new Brother laser printers for less than the toner cartridge. Same thing for a while with PTouch tapes. I was buying a new label maker for $10 with the tape. New tape was $20. They got smart and started sending them both out with "starter: toner or "starter" tapes. They also jacked up prices on the tapes and toner. I pretty much now hate everybody. Add Sony to the list I guess.

Here's another winner from the bay. Seller claims a friend braided it for him without re-terminating the cable. Sure he did

I thought the set on ebay with the cables hand braided were bad. But this takes it to another level.

Apparently, everything so far. Tubes work ok for some things. A DAC is a horrid place for a tube. You want the tube sound, do it somewhere that doesn't cause issues. And DAC electronics are pretty sensitive to HV.

My lightly used (if at all) Luminox Scott Cassel

Ok, I've played with vintage stuff for years, so I should of done this 1st. Clean 30+ years of crud out of the switch, clean out the socket connections, I also cut back the wires to fresh copper and crimped on copper pins. Bass is there now. But the srd-4 still has the warmer sound. I didn't have 27 ohm wirewounds, so I doubled-up 68 ohm 3 watt for 34 ohms. Now both boxes pretty much sound the same. That was the only real difference, and with them in place on the srd-6 it changed the sound. The 4 is still just a bit warmer, but I prefer it this way. If I change my mind, I'll go find the proper 27 Ohm ones. In a pinch I could use the 6 with the 202's as well.

I really am going to have to build a decent energizer. I built an exstata hybrid, which is ok, but with all the great designs out there it's about time to move up a couple of levels. The sr-80 and srd-4 should hold me over for a while. I think I'll gut out parts from the exstata and drop in some new boards.

I don't see anything obvious. Thermistors appear ok, but that's pretty hard to really check. I'm going to have to unsolder them There's two on each channel in parallel. The rest of it looks ok. There are some differences in how they are built. The srd4 has larger, single thermistors on the input. it also has 5 watt 27 ohm resistors in parallel with the transformers. The srd6 has a spot on the board for them, but doesn't have them installed. This is the big difference (other than bias tapped off one channel). I could see where this might change the sound signature. Guess I just need to accept the fact they have a different sound.

I'll have to pop the top on the srd-6 I'm sure there's not too much in there to go bad. The sr-80 is a bit lighter in bass than the sr-40. But the lack of side to side movement on the wire arc of the sr-40 makes it hard for me to wear. The sr-80 fits much better. At some point I'm going to have to build a new amp for the sr-202's.

I just bought a sr-80 and srd-6 to use with my second system. It sounded pretty good, no balance issues. But some bass stuff was not up to par.. I thought it was just the nature of the sr-80's. On a whim I hooked it up through a srd-4 I had sitting around. There's the missing bass. The cutoff point was lower. The overall sound was warmer as well. Are the two boxes that much different, or is there an issue I need to check for?

New Seiko daily driver.