I would say try before you buy (even though the resale on the MK1 seems to be pretty good), since it will be pretty steep to build a system around them. I'm very glad that I got to hear them at a meet and at a dealer, otherwise I probably never would have bought them.
Probably a very, very long time. You don't hear of many Stax electrostat driver failures. And I believe the O2 is their most robust design to date. I don't know much about the electrets.
I too store them in the flight case when I'm not using them.
Moved the Audio Space Galaxy 34 (in linear mode) into the Stax setup again, and listened a bit more. Opened up the upper mids and treble a bit. Nice improvement, I'm going to leave this amp in my setup for the time being. Will try and get a picture, it's a cool looking amp when lit up.
Men's mountain biking looked really good, that circuit did look brutal. Not surprising that Absalon was dominating, but I thought the US had some decent riders from what I remember watching NORBA races
Really makes me want to ride some good single track
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I do believe this is the cheapest I've seen the E7200 at: Newegg.com - Intel Core 2 Duo E7200 Wolfdale 2.53GHz 3MB L2 Cache LGA 775 65W Dual-Core Processor - Processors - Desktops
Pretty decent processor if you don't need quad core.
I think Reks is referring to the M-L.
I'm not a fan either, but it's not because of the bass. The dynamic bass woofer and the estat panel just didn't have a seamless transition.
It took you an entire day to come up with that?
Seriously go back to Headfi, I don't think you get this place. If you really thought you were being witty, to quote JBLoudG20: epic fail.