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of course, that's JENA labs standard technique!
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I did notice it has the same 11 major hashes as the one people are using for the off board KGSSHV. He spelled electrostatic right though
He asked for it, so I gave it to him.
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His bijou was the reason why I bought the boards...
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You could've made them into monsoon earspeakers:
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Have a great one!
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^^^
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If not, could someone please direct me to the latest BOM?
Here's the one I've been using. Prices might need to be updated.
Edit: spotted one thing. At R6 and R16, Use 20k for 450V supply, or 18K for 500V supply. For 475V supply I believe it is 19.1K to get around 473V?
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Happy Birthday
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Yeah, I was definitely going to get the Klipsch 2.1. They were too expensive though, so I bought a 2.1 system from edifier instead. They sucked.
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Edifier's speakers suck. Really, they really really suck. Let me tell you how and why they suck.
I bought their model S330 when I built my first computer rig. In this package is a 2.1 setup that had two speakers and a sub, with a built-in DAC in the sub. It had good reviews, and people online seems to like it a lot. Well, those people have no idea what they were talking about. In its default form, the tiny speakers was missing the mid-range entirely. All I heard was muddy bass + shrieking treble. I've since replaced the plastic boxes with a pair of polk M10, they are much better; but they will never match my stax rig.
Not Only was the sound bad, the built quality was bad too. When I first hooked it up, there was no sound from one side. Turns out it was a contact issue. Volume matching was piss poor at low volume, and there was audible hum from the speakers no matter what the volume was. When you turn the volume knob, you're certainly going to hear distortion on the output of your speakers. That's bad bad bad.
So yeah, while I am looking forward to seeing cheaper electrostatic headphones from these guys, if they are going to produce electrostatic amps (They certainly will be) I'll be staying far FAR away. That said, it's been a while since I bought the speakers, and I'm willing to give them the benefit of the doubt. Let's see how they perform in the future.
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"STAX product design will be more beautiful" reading the original text, that's just a way of saying stax will focus on whatever stax does. "I wish you all good health, everything goes!" is badly translated. The greetings means that he wishes everyone good health, and things you wish for would come true.
What I do find interesting is that they will be creating a new brand in China that sells cheaper electrostatic headphones. One of us will have to be the guinea pig to get that.
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Sounds like you'll want some sort of OCR software as well.
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Yep, it works on Lion. Open "Print & Scan" under System Preferences and the scanner *should* be listed there, assuming drivers are still installed. Double-click on the scanner and it'll open up the scanning window. Make sure the scanner's connected, though just plugging it in doesn't give any indication that it's going to work. Also, none of the physical buttons ever worked for me, at least on Mac.
Hey! That Work! Thank.
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Mac Lion? I couldn't find drivers for it, only older versions of Mac OSX. I did try to install the older drivers, but nothing happens when I plug in the scanner.
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ah, I need a scanner too. I'm currently using a canoscan LiDE 500F. but it's not large enough to scan oversized books that my mom has. It doesn't work with mac either, so mom can't use it with her laptop. So I've been looking for a new one as well. Let me know what you found.
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Very cool. How does mute work?
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I agree with a lot of your points. Particularly about the fact that there is almost no market for this stuff. One of the bits that I really don't like about the acquisition report was the part where edifier specified that they are looking to establish a new brand that produces portable electrostatic headphone systems to lower entry level. (公司还计划推出基于静电技术的新品牌，以便携式的静电耳机产品为主打，进一步拉低售价门槛) This strikes me as wishful thinking, especially when there are already competing technologies that do a better job. It also goes against what they stated in their risk assessment. (由于耳机行业竞争激烈，虽然STAX在静电耳机技术上存在较大的优势，但是静电耳机技术有可能会被更先进技术替代，如果公司不能进一步在产品的各项新技术开发方面继续投入、提升，也可能会被市场淘汰。- Stax has technological advantages, but it may be replaced by other technologies.) It really tells you how much research edifier has done before buying stax.
However, edifier does have a larger distribution network than stax, so we'll have to wait and see how they try to market it in the future. Given how well everyone here knows about this company, that is.
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Indeed. After reading that paragraph for a while, the official reason was that stax had almost 0% predicted growth rate and discount rate being around 6.6%~7.6%. Of course, god knows what kind of deal was struck under the table.
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the unit was in 万, so 10,000 RMB.
This is why they were purchased for 1.5M
本次股权受让价格是在对Pinnacle会社出具的《STAX有限会社股票估值分析报告书》基础上，并根据Zecoo会社对STAX的财务尽职调查结果对《STAX有限会社股票估值分析报告书》进行了修正，主要是折现率的上限（7.1%）作为基准折现率，并上下浮动0.5%进行敏感性分析，采取折现现金流（预计的未来经营现金流）DCF的办法估算STAX的价值。公司采取的DCF模型中，永久增长率分别为-0.5%、0.0%、0.5%的情况下，折现率在6.6%~7.6%的范围内进行的谨慎估值区间为（8,560万日元~11,260万日元），同时综合考虑STAX的技术优势和对本公司耳机产品的提升等因素，经与原股东协商确定最后交易价格为1.2亿日元
Too much financial mumble jumble in there for me to translate...
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about 843,000 USD. Honestly, I'm not too happy with Edifier's speaker qualities. It's not very solid. I can only hope that they improve their production quality when they start manufacturing electostatic headphones.
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This is what Edifier plan on doing with stax.
本次投资是公司发展主营业务，尤其是耳机业务的关键性投资。通过收购目黑阳造先生所持有的STAX的100％股权，公司立即拥有了全球著名的静电耳机及其功放的所有设计、制造技术和相应市场，公司得以迅速占领高端耳机的制高点，使公司能够向耳机行业的高端品牌发起挑战。 公司还将利用自身现有的制造能力，大力降低静电耳机的制造成本，同时利用自身渠道大力推进相关产品的销售，使得所有消费者都有机会感受到这种高性能产品，努力使得产品售价为更多的消费者所接受。 公司还计划推出基于静电技术的新品牌，以便携式的静电耳机产品为主打，进一步拉低售价门槛，起到承上启下的重要作用。 因此，本次收购不仅可以获得财务收益，更使得公司拥有了耳机行业内的高端技术，结合公司自身现有的优势，不但可以使STAX品牌长足发展，更使公司得相关业务得到一个关键立足点，为未来的大幅发展奠定了坚实的基础。
They wanted Stax's electrostatic headphones technology to go into high end headphones production. They also wanted to use their current production capabilities to reduce production cost, meaning that the production will likely move to China in the future. They also plan on increase marketing electrostatic headphones to the public. It also looks like they want to produce portable electrostatic headpones....
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Here's the actual transaction document. pdf
Important bits:
主要财务数据： (Stax Ltd. Financial Figures)
单位：人民币万元
项目名称 2008 年 2009 年 2010 年 2011年1-10月
营业收入 1982.1 1924.03 1470.33 1666.65
毛利润 591.7 494.25 210.77 546.76
营业利润 136.28 38.83 -258.24 235.2
净利润 114.63 34.14 -219.32 236.99
资产总额 948.37 1181.44 802.1 1105.97
应收帐款 223.86 310.8 207.73 196.93
负债总额 419.41 623.23 468.08 536.42
所有者权益 528.97 558.22 334.02 569.55
Total debt in bold. Multiply the numbers by 10000 to get $$ in RMB.
Also, the document states that the company will be transferred over by March 31, 2012.
And now what did you do TODAY?
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X2, my heart goes out to you and your family.