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Ahhh the Jecklin QA... we really need to take one of those apart. Some fucktard on HF is talking them up now but nobody is listening...

That's pure win right there.

Yeah...can't believe that was almost 10 years ago but I truly don't see how Fang could have moved from that steaming pile of shit to a 50K$ and for it not to be a steaming pile of shit as well...just much more expensive. I do feel kinda bad now that I turned down a slightly broken Jade for the price of shipping as it would be nice to have one in the museum, the sheer level of shit just has to be preserved I mean there are plenty of headphones I don't like but for most it is a voicing issue or they fall flat in some crucial area. With the Jade it was just so shockingly bad all around. I mean I can't stand the Stax SR-507 but they do a lot of things right...the Jade just fails... Fucked treble and bass, fucked midrange and fucked soundstage with the worst build quality ever. The King Sound units are close behind but at least they are pretty cheap, at least the KS-H1.

But..but..it's so much to fun to watch a train wreck like this. Fang is like a small spoiled child that goes completely over the top if things don't go exactly as he wants. I think we need to buy some of his products just to rip them apart and piss him off.

Any KGSSHV will do just fine.

Indeed, this whole "we only care about the performance...honest" BS...nobody buys that. Fang is a bit like the car company's here, talking about all the issues with the previous model just because they have a new one out. "Sure...this was perfect last week but now it is shit!!" Edit: Just browsed through the thread... and fuck Fang is nuts!! People don't lavish his newest piece of shit with praise so he is to be executed? Ehhh ok... what!!??!!??

I was reading some of their PR bullshit and the cable section was interesting. First of all...it has a loop going through it so if the cable is unplugged then the amp will shut off. Seems to be 4 wires going to each cup and they do mention that: Interesting... Well not but why put ground anywhere in an electrostatic system.

They could coat the spacer with something conducive but yeah, I doubt that is the case. Pure single ended shit with all sort of weirdness. Pure win!! Now...now... don't drag things like science into this!! It should be clear to anyone that the stators stand in the way of the sound molecules and there is no way the bass ones can get through those small holes!! Just like Ray said about the wires, they have to be thick enough for the bass to get through. In all seriousness, the stators aren't a problem in any way that I can see and getting rid of them, or making some flimsy as shit mesh stator will make everything worse. Can you even imagine how hard it is to make the Shangri-La stators actually run parallel to one another? Pretty much impossible I'd say let alone what happens when you start playing something. Hello high distortion electrostatic!!

Ahhh so it sucks in its natural form so they are trying to fix it in DSP. Sounds like pure win to me...

The BH PSU is two PSU's tied together at the output to create a bipolar supply so this wouldn't be a problem.

Yeah, the same old BS as with all "revolutionary tech", it will be much cheaper and used everywhere!!! Remember the NXT panels?

We never did one of those that I can remember. It would be easy enough to cut the back off the PCB but the connectors would have to be moved.

You can do single ended if you simply ground the other "stator" which makes them pseudo push pull. The Koss ESP6, 7, 8 and 9 do it this way and so do the odd Philips electrets from the 70's. Now how this is done is very important as to how well it works but it is never the equivalent of simply using a pure push-pull setup. I agree that this is basically what Beveridge did back in the day and relies heavily on bias with all the issues that entails. I'm highly skeptical of all of this but hey, let's take one apart and see how it works.

Indeed, cables made by people who have no idea what they are doing adding a level of danger to the listening session. Pure win!! I'd love to hear these but I'm very skeptical that they are any better than traditional electrostatics. Also that amp is probably utter shit...and wasn't the dac just a bog standard ESS Sabre?

Yes

They are a bit smaller but I need to series connect to bring down number of values used so space saving is pretty much zero. My goal is to have them assembled for me a thus cut the cost of the amps.

Last I heard there is no stock for anything Stax in Japan so they would be the newest version.

It is indeed all soldered by hand and they are 2510 resistors. Only size you can really use for electrostatic HV use even though I also use them for the LV stuff as well. That is mostly to use the same parts more than once. The through hole resistors are there because I forgot to order 200R and 300R units but I might change them to series connected 100R's anyway. With pick and place it helps to keep the parts numbers low so hello series connection. The 2SK170's are just covered with heatshrink and the HV parts are out of stock but I have thousands of them.

Here are the boards mounted to the heatsinks. One small mod wire as the bloody layout software doesn't check the ground plane for continuity... The board has already been through major revisions to adapt this to mass production and I doubt I am done.

Here is something new that I might make more of... the SMD KGSSHV. This is really my attempt to build a "cheap" electrostatic amp to bring a great amp to the masses. Lofty goal and I have no idea if it will succeed but its worth a shot.

Yeah that and the pretty shitty switching power supply...

WTF indeed. Notice that those are 230V models as well so not the Airbow stuff from Japan.

The RIAA in that thing has to be seriously shitty to not crush the Graham Slee so well worth the rebuild.

I would certainly swap out all the caps, diodes and the like but this looks to be a very nice piece of kit. I doubt our RUV (public broadcaster) had anything this nice at the time.. Nice P+G slide pot there.

Nope, just equally retarded and in a rush to loose some money.