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Feel free to post some impressions to get the thread back on track.

Guess it was far too much work to redesign the PCB with a lot of ventilation slots and a new chassis design...

retarded necrophiliac? He is probably the biggest idiot on HF and that says quite a bit...

The M-L panels are terrible by design with thick film and more attention paid to how they look then how they will sound. Kings Audio is also supposed to be even worse with nobody at the company having a clue how to design ESL's...

Yeah, why listen to the damned thing? Sovkiller says that transformers are bad and this fucking thing has two per channel... that's double fail!!!

Each to own but Quad's are finicky beasts that were never engineered or built well enough to last to. Now sets from the factory today are way off and often need to be refurbished in a few years. I'm not sure about the German units but they should be much better made as they have done some mods to the original design. Also check out Sound-Lab for the ultimate in size and power if you can find a set local to you. Massive beasts to say the least and a shocking 12kVDC bias...

M-L's are trash these days but the Quad's should have given you an idea of what the technology can do if the speakers were in good condition. As a true planar head I put musicality in first place above all else and any Stax will deliver that in spades and urge you to listen to just one more song. They are brilliant at everything else but this is what truly sets them apart from the dynamics and why I will never go back to moving coils.

I hate it moar

I know and I educated you at the same time. See how much fun Stax is!!

Neat!!! If you want a hybrid amp then it has to drive either type through transformers (works either way, up or down) or have two amps in the same box like that SP amp.

If you want fireworks, then yes.

At least they are in the PSU and not the signal path... Most companies boast about zero electrolytics in the signal path for a reason.

BUY A SR-007!!!!! You really like the LNS and the SR-007 is an even better version of that same sound signature. Epic fail!!!! I have some amps that you could borrow but all of my spare phones are spoken for.

There is zero noise in normal operation on my two sets but if you force the diaphragms they will squeal. The basic design of the SR-Ω isn't as airtight as the SR-007 (air can escape under the pads for instance) so squealing might be an indication of something bad or just normal. I don't really need a third set...

Ahhh epic failure on the part of online translators. The SR-Omega shouldn't fart though, at least nothing compared to the SR-007

I'm sold!! When can I expect shipment?? It goes without saying that is should be made out of solid unobtainium with platinum connectors and only sell for 15$...

SR-Omega on Y!JP Looks like it is malfunctioning...

Mikhail says it is better... :'(

Since these are planars then the housing will always have a huge impact on the load as well as the air around the driver. I guess it is time to hit the books on electrostatic theory to make sense of this. One point though, the SR-007 is an easy load compared to the rest of the phones on paper but it could be the air damping that makes them so demanding in real life. The drivers are small compared to the SR-Ω yet even harder to drive.

I'm up for some violence. Can I get with with an Enigma active shield or whatever that douchebag box is called?

Ok cool but this does bring up one thing, is the capacitance spec enough info to go on? The 4070 and a SR-404 are identical in this regard but the amp load isn't even close, same with the SR-Lambda and SR-Sigma. The SR-303 is 120pf yet the SR-Ω is 110pf and the SR-007 Mk2 is 94pf and we both know that the load is very different. The Blue Hawaii doesn't break a sweat driving any of them but all amps aren't the BH...

My guess is that both sides of the family would have wanted the crazy dictator dead but lets drop this nonsense and continue to watch Mikhail sink even lower then before.

I've had a few of those and they are very nice indeed (I'd like to find a Mk1 though... ) and will give you a taste of the vintage Stax sound. The Mk3 is better all round (the headband is also less fragile) but I've never liked them as much as the Mk2. The housing is plastic like all of the SR-X's though the drivers are mounted to an aluminum "cup" which sits on the plastic frame. The drivers are very similar to the SR-3 units but I don't remember if they are identical. \ They will fit (slightly shorter) but since the Sigma pads are completely flat they will alter the sound as much of the Lambdas sound staging ability is down to the pads. The Sigma pads available are identical to the old stuff and the only pads they have "tampered" with are the SR-Ω units as well as dropped some. You'll get a PM now for a place that has cheap-ish Stax pads...

It's also nice to know that the Square Wave has breakthrough technology in the form of push-pull. Did I step into a time machine or something? Hitler wire FTW!!! One you think that suck-it-alo would sell such a marvelous thing...

What Marc said but to put things into context a Lambda is somewhere around 110pf. It's also tough to tell how the drivers impedance plot is as they might drop by quite a bit in the bass and treble requiring wast amounts (relatively) of current from the amp. I was going to try them from the BH but got fed up with the lack of comfort...