Duggeh
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With the USD sinking like it is, soon I'll be able to afford a KGBH for the price of a tin of spam and a pencil.
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What does KGST stand for anyway?
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You need to craftily sell things you buy on ebay for more than you paid after tidying them up, and work a few crappy jobs about the place.
I'm going further speaker-fi all the time, I think its a matter of time before theres downsizing of the collection to the all important ones. The O2 and the Surrounder.
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Pah just wait for a KGSS or KGBH milkpowder, you only got an HE60 anyway, you can run one of those from an SRM-001 with flat dry cell batteries!
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sure is. the electrostatic vs. dynamic speaker wars have taken to the street.
The AMT hybrid guys always suffer in these battles, getting stuck in the crossfire.
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Happy Birthday dude.
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Theres mariokart 64 on the virtual console. Thats about as realistic and fun as racing games get.
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way too highbrow. how about "Aerius raped me in an cold Canadian alley and then made me listen to his fucking K340s and shocked me with his homemade electro-therapy device."
Some of us already have that T-shirt though, maybe there could be hoodies?
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Around 10 o clock on the SRM-717. I listen louder on speakers than on headphones.
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So where does this kind of talent come from?
Practice.
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Just how loud is loud listening for you, I find that if you crank the volume up, to a level that i personally wouldn't listen at, the frequency response changes, the highs become too bright, probably because the tweeter driver is more sensitive. And the mid-bass does start to boom. Possibly a standing wave resonance, or a factor to do with the housing.
Driver rattle is simply unacceptable, and it is an issue that I had at first with my set. I thought it was down to hairs in the housing, but my hair is long now compared to when the headphone arrived with me and the rattling has long since gone and never shown itself again.
The transformer is almost certainly the weak link as regards dynamic response and tonal balance away from neutrality (at my listening volume). I have noticed improvements as I have changed my amps but other H2 listeners have noted minimal impact so long as the amp is capable of the power requirements.
I think that any amp that's worthy of the K1000 ought to do just fine with the H2/TR-2, and yes, that MP-15 is seriously sexy. I want.
Fit issues may be changed with the new series of pads that TakeT has been working on. However the idea of these pads doesn't fit with how I think that the drivers should be worn, which is as I say, free hanging. And yeah, the lambda housing is a pile of aids. I think though that the H2 has comparisons with Grado headphones. Disagreements over comfort, pads to use for best sound, and easily criticised build quality. There are though of course, loads of people who love Grado headphones, for how they sound. I hope that people who do take the brave step of trying an H2 do like it, and I do hope that the company makes some money and improves its product.
The not finished commercial aspect is debateable, however the weaknesses for the most part, are not related to the driver (only the housing). So if TakeT does for example, design a whole new headband mechanism and pads, then it hopefully wont be a huge cost for a set of those pads.
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Stax prices on ebay have soared in the last 12/24 months. I sold an SR-3N I bought for ?15 for more than ?100. I wouldn't have paid that for it myself, but I was happy to take the money. That was in January.
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The walking with monsters video excerpt is awesome.
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Ah, very 5th element.
I was thinking more
though.
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Our new insect overlords?
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Get that Krell plugged in and turn up that SPL!
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The housing construction is on a par with the Stax Lambda series, and fit with any headphone is a subjective problem but I think that peoples problems with fit may be stemming from trying to get the H2 to fit like a normal headphone, when a k1000/Jecklin "floating" fit is what should be aimed for. The sprung headband isn't as comfy looking as the Audio Technica ones but it is comfy and it does work, at least for me. Indeed, I think that temple pads like on the K1000 might be the ultimate solution for those drivers. I might try cobbling one together in the inter-semester break in January.
The weaknesses in the design are the main headband (screw together is primitive to say the least) and the cable (which insofar as I can tell, is just low gauge low quality stranded copper wire with no real insulation. I shouldn't expect any huge design revisions from TakeT for a long time. No sudden change to an all metal damped housing and self adjusting headband and low capacitance cabling for example. You have to remember its a really small company selling really small numbers of units and that their main business is almost certainly in those super tweeters. I am drawing speculation of course though.
Amplification is a huge problem, and one that likely isn't to be resolved quickly. I mean how many years has it taken for the headphone community to discover the optimal K1000 amps? And there's a lot more of those about the place. Gradual experience and experimentation will build a knowledge base but I agree its frustrating not having an easy and obvious direct drive option available atm.
I've had my best results, both with and without the transformer from a Pass Labs Aleph amp. The transformer is still a necessary evil though.
There is one plug and go direct drive amp, made by another small Japanese company run by an ex Stax employee. It's only available for Japanese market though (100V). So getting ahold of one is tricky and then you'd have to use a voltage converter as well.
From memory of things posted on head-fi, the Headamp Blue Hawaii SE will run the H2 with a Stax-XLR converter cable according to Dr Gilmore. He also mentioned that the Singlepower ES-1 would drive the H2, but it would need modifications to do so. I cannot recall comments on the standard KGBH or KGSS. In any event, the KGBHSE and ES-1 are hardly easy or cheap options. I think that Dr Gilmore might also have drawn up a separate design for an H2 amp.
You say that it sounds like garbage out of your garbage gear. Its entirely possible that there's something about the sound you simply don't like. What specifically is it that sounds garbage? Until we ascertain the answer to this question I think it best that you hold off on throwing more money at them, unless you're using this as a double opportunity to upgrade your amp for your speaker rig fo course.
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My NOS Surrounder just arrived. Joymachine.
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Whats so good about it? Im pretty clueless as to the pot/attn/whatever.
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Anyone know what the SE case is going to look like?
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Will the new series of HeadAmp stat amps have one volume knob, or two? I, for one, would pay more to have a single knob. I used to have a preamp with independent L/R volume pots, and I got rid of it for precisely that reason.
Of course, what I really want to know is how any of the above will drive the TakeT H2s.
Are there not significant sonic gains to be made from using a separate cermet stepped pot for each channel? Half the distortion, or double the transparency, or however you want to phrase it.
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The writer's strike has left me with more free time than usual.
More time to play in your motorboat.
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If PMs are lost ill be wanting my contribution back.
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By the time I get to the gym I'm knackered and have to go and lie down.
The Headcase Stax thread
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Our esteemed chancellor Darling has actually done some people a great service in propping up the Northern Rock like he has. getting into their bank accounts and keeping their money safe. Gordon Brown is PM now, cant make all those money grabbing jokes anymore.
Nevertheless the government could face some very very very very bad times if Northern Rock goes bad. It'll certainly be the most catastrophic government financial mismanagement since Black Wednesday and that was a massive factor in the Tories falling from power under the massive Labour landslide in 1997.
Do you get to vote in the elections Milkpowder? The choice is hardly brilliant at the minute, but at least we were spared the November General. That could have been messy.
Taxes are high, but they aren't crippling, not yet. Ancillary taxing policy gets a lot of flak but it does work on a social as well as financial level for many things (alcohol and tobacco for example) (petrol for another, although different).
So long as the SNP don't achieve success in an independence referendum. If Scotland goes independent I'm jumping ship to England on the first boat. I'll be at least graduated by the time it happens though.