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The Quick is great and Weller is trash now. See the EEVBlog review of one which had no fuse for some reason...

Here are some pics of the amplifier modules: ...and the back: '+ The model1 by comparison: Same shit slightly beefed up.

I want to try one but the amps in these are pure garbage. I found some nice Also funny...this was supposed to be "cheap" tech.

I haven't seen it yet but it is on the list. The rest is indeed apartments and the bakery is just on the ground floor.

Yup, it is there in the on right side of the white buildings in the center.

I just put a new cable on my second set (beause reasons) and I do like them a lot. I also ripped apart one set to examine the drivers and a lot of effort went into these. Bunch of custom molded parts though the stators themselves are PCB.

Yeah, word on the street is that people are not happy with this pile of fail. Color me surprised...

You can get a clean bench which are for instance used to repair hard drives and other sensitive equipment.

I would guess so as well. There is not a whole lot of mass there so it would heat up quickly and no doubt damage the mylar. What a shame...

Soldering to the bias ring... not cool at all.

It is possible but you really have to take them out of the small housing and glue them together. This is due to the internal angle of the Sigma housing and how close the drivers sit to that side. Now doing this is very tricky but can be done.

...so Grado's?

I'd like to know what they were smoking when doing that input trace... clearly needs more vias...

I have one of those and it is ok but the screen is kinda bad and so is the resolution

The undersized 175K resistors aren't a great idea so I'd have 1/2W units there.

Do watch this then... Amazon selling shit that will probably give people cancer.

I see them on sale everywhere so I'm not surprised. Plus it sounds like shit and the build quality is even worse...

If you just want to have a simple test rig, the price here is hard to beat unless you can find a used Lambda for a similar amount. You would need to reterminate though or use an adapter. The RR1 sounds a lot better though.

That's a hell of a deal and makes me mad knowing how much I paid for my set...

I've never seen anything off the shelf for sale but Vesper can make some for you: https://vesperaudio.com/earpads

I can make an adapter no problem. I'd just have to dig mine out from storage and look at the pinout. I know I bought some extra sockets for these when I made my adapter.

I will be getting both sets of pads and naturally... I take everything apart so expect pics. 🙂 No doubt the normal bias SR-X is a bit bright as they were tuned like that. Stax wanted to bleed off a lot of the bass so the end result is a bright set. My point was more with the importance of the pads as they matter a lot with the close proximity of the drivers. Also when they have arc'ed...they get even brighter.

With the SR-X series the pads make or break them. The current pads Stax stock are actually SR-30 units as the originals haven't been available for a long time. Now for the topic at hand, I have one of these incoming so it will be fun to play with. 🙂

With the SB boxes there is a third transformer inside the unit which taps off the HV side of the audio units and further steps up the voltage. That is then fed into a voltage limited voltage multiplier which generates the bias voltage. With the AC units they feed directly into the bias supply multiplier which isn't very safe these days.

So here I was modding a SRM-006tS to a CCS and noticed this: That is the R+ output and notice the 3 lines coming off it, one going to the feedback, one going to the output resistor and one... going to the other side of the output resistor... One has to wonder just how many of these they have shipped like this? In other news, it was fun converting an original T1 and and this one at the same time. 30 years apart and almost exactly the same...