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  1. While I was waiting for a flight, I checked out some Chinese sites and found these pics:

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    This is the HV supply for the opamps and the bias supply.  This is clearly pretty dire but look at the bias supply... it's simply a voltage doubler off the input AC with no trimmer, no voltage divider, no filter at all but there is more fuckery afoot... look at those bias ballast resistors.  Can anybody decode those values?  Hint... they are not 4.7M as they should be.  🙄

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  2. Sure, if you aren't having fun then why on earth would anybody call this a hobby.  I know far too many people take this way to seriously but I'd also say his post very much goes in that direction and comes off as nonsensical at best.  Perhaps I'm biased by my own extremely low effort reviews but when you are drawing up multiple images... yeah... it all becomes a bit serious. 

    I also very much agree that the review doesn't touch on how the headphones actually sound.  To me they have a deliberately compromised imaging (as in designed throw a specific image but it doesn't really work or make any sense) so I feel it is a lot of BS thrown up to try and account for that.  Electrostatics are (well should be) infinite baffle designs so if the room is having an impact... then the other side of the bipolar output is surely doing so as well.  That will cause cancellations, time smear and totally fuck up the sound. 

    I find it a bit funny how both designs that pay homage to the SR-Omega, leave out or fuck with, what is arguably its main design element.  The ES-1a doesn't have the outer screen in place at all and on the X9000 they use a very different material and then angle the screen... and do it in the wrong bloody direction.  The screen should have been denser and flat to the back of the drivers. 

     

     

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  3. I've been away but this one was short lived but really bad.  Some 30-40 thousand people lost all heating to the houses (in -10°C weather) and the electrical grid couldn't keep up so they lost that and cold water too in some places. 

    Now another eruption is forecast in 3-4 weeks and that might just be the new norm for us. 

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  4. There SR-X1 drivers are clearly a play on the older SR-XMk3/SR-5N basic structure as seen from the stators but who knows what the structure is actually like.  I'll buy a set when they first become available and rip it all apart...  :)

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  5. 10 hours ago, padam said:

    I definitely give two thumbs up that they are wiling to delve deeper into their past.

    I'm all for that if it isn't a cash grab like the X9000.  Looks like the SR-Omega... misses all of the design nuances and gets them all wrong

  6. 1 hour ago, catscratch said:

    Regarding modern Lambdas being not good... well yes and no. Their flaws are fixable and with some EQ and mods they're very good sounding IMO. The question is, why do we need to do the work to extract good sound from them rather than Stax doing it right the first time.

    Exactly, flip the housing around and remove the stupid dust screen on the L300 and they are not bad at all.  Not 207 good but why we have to fix their shit is annoying. 

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  7. The name isn't fixed as of yet but they claim it will be neutral sounding... we'll see about that.  It is set to replace the L300 but given it has leather earpads and a whole new structure... I doubt they will be cheap.  

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  8. In Japan the Spirit came in two versions, one with the wool and one without so I assume they just follow along with that.  Plus the German importer had a lot of one-off things just sold there.  ED-5, all the SR-5 stuff etc. 

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  9. Those were contractors, saving the large earth moving machines you can see in the background.  Those were being used to make walls around the town to try and steer the lava away from it so they might come in handy later. 

    The latest news claim the smaller fissure inside the town has pretty much closed at this point and most of the lava is running to the west so above the houses. 

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  10. ...so here we are again and this time it is much, much worse. 

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    It started just before 8am here and this was taken just as day was breaking, around 10:15am.  This is right next to the town and a second fissure has opened up inside the town so yeah... this is not good.  Now the town was evacuated quickly but the first houses have already been consumed by the lava and it can go only one way, through the town and into the sea. 

    There was a serious accident this week in the town where a man was buried alive when he was trying to stabilize some of the fractures in the earth.  They searched for two days but couldn't find him so it was decided to abandon the town yesterday. 

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