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Bryston and quality? You surely are joking as Bryston is a special level of crap and bad engineering.

There are no windings there. The transformers are now 100V only.

Blown capacitors, blown transistors and other nice things...

Well they would probably ask him to do it and then fuck up the design afterwards...aka the 717. That would also be very different because they would manufacture it, why would they get some way subpar company to make something to their specs which has no good use in the signal path. Just doesn't make any sense. Much more sensible is that this is either pure and utter BS or they share the same distributor somewhere and it was them who asked for the "match" so sell more crap.

I think all of that is untrue in every possible sense. Why on earth would Stax get somebody else to design a preamp for them? Seriously?

It's not the problem if the tubes are within their operating spec.

I have the HF5's and they are quite nice. Silly level of isolation and perfect for casual music listening. Funny story about them, my regular walks usually take me through the grounds of the presidential residence. This is Iceland so no guards but the presidents chauffeur stopped me a while back for a chat (we know each other enough to say hi). He said "I tried calling for you yesterday but you didn't reply. I thought you were so full of yourself that you didn't want to chat!" I showed him the HF5's and just how much they isolate...

You can easily measure amplitude with a function generator and an oscilloscope.

I think the Darwin award might even be out of reach for this particular fucktard.

Not sure, things are moving very, very slowly...

Yeah that isn't likely.

Ahh yes he clearly missed out on not including the sorb!! It think that would make our world explode though, too much stupidity in one session...

Ding, ding, ding, ding.... I think we found the most stupid person on the internet. I mean seriously...how fucking stupid is this shit? This will utterly fuck up the sound of the 207's...

It's true that's been a while but these are also the only transformers that have shorted to the chassis. Not even some of the truly horrific shit I've gotten from China can lay claim to that.

I agree that quantitative measurements are ineffectual and cause more confusion than not. People look at almost identical FR graphs and think they should be the same...but they are miles apart. Draw the same conclusion for amps and you are equally fucked. Doesn't mean measurements are bad, they are just one part of the equation. As for all the inaccurate stuff, well very few people actually know how electrostatics operate down to the core. Even the people who build them often have no idea, they just cobble something together which kinda works so that's a good'n... Long charge time for the diaphragm? No, but sometimes yes. As for the 007 being so difficult, it's all about the capacitance and how it couples to the acoustic transmission. I also wouldn't call the 007 difficult to drive in the sense that they require heaps of power like that Hifiman ortho crap. A much more accurate description would be that they require a supremely stable and linear amplifier, one that isn't fazed by their quirks. Now this should describe any capable amp but we aren't talking about simple dynamics here so even small issues can have drastic consequences. It really doesn't matter what amp Stax make as people will always want more. I'm kinda glad that Kevin talked me out of designing a baby Carbon as people simply don't want budget amps. I've been standing on the break the best I could but what they really want is something crazy expensive and unique. One last thing, anybody claiming that all Chinese parts are bad are just idiots. The worst transformers I've ever used were SumR, none have ever shorted to the chassis like they did (two of them) but among the worst were also Chinese. Now the best transformers I've ever used were also Chinese. That's only because I'm willing to pay for the best, willing to go through multiple test units and let them know exactly what I wanted. Now each unit is perfect and just like every other one. Same goes for PCB's, there are some real dogs out there but once you find a place to work with that actually cares about quality you'll know that it matches anything else in the world.

Sadly not, he uses the other fucked Canadian transformer factory, Plitron.

That's how I've felt for a long time. It's almost two years since my last post on HF and I only go over there to reply to PM's. It really has turned to shit and one post in the KSE1500 thread summed it up. One fucktard claimed he was all powerful because he owned the most expensive gear... yup that's HF in a nutshell. The true milestone on whether or not HF matters at all IMO is the Carbon. Given the number of units out there and the other stuff those owners have...there is no discussion at all. I find that kinda funny, the anti hype...

The days of balanced power from the grid are long gone. There are a few spots here that have it but it was more expensive so nothing recently built will have it.

No idea as I haven't opened up a 009 yet.

Looks like I need to venture over to HF to read the newest level of stupidity... What I truly dislike there are the few times people show up with actual questions that matter but there is nobody there with any actual knowledge to help them. The discussion is just meaningless twaddle without any knowledge at all. The "people in the know" read something somewhere but it's all bullshit and lies. I was sent the recent discussion about the 009 imbalance issue and the astounding amount of stupidity there just made me shake my head. We've reached the point where we have a pretty good idea what's going on but the HF braintrust...yeah fucking clueless as is to be expected.

We might consider to let him live. I'll bring it up with the council... As for CanJam, I might host it just to have the HF cunts detained and then deported...

I do like that they don't know the difference between fauna and flora but seriously, we don't need any more tourists. Everything is stretched to the breaking point...

I have no idea why they can't do it but that's just how it is. Most of their amps are just clusterfucks though, chewing through tubes like there is no tomorrow.

Indeed, connect to TVR2.

There is no stirring up shit here, the WEE is destroying headphones and Woo do fuck all about it. In fact the boxes are sent back, "tested" and there is miraculously nothing wrong with them. I've seen two of them where the bias supply was an old flyback unit which is completely incompatible and on top of that...no ballast resistors. No wonder the fucking thing hummed like mad and Woo "found nothing wrong with the unit". The entire bias supply was ripped out, fitted with my bias board and has worked flawlessly ever since. This is a problem we are going to see a lot of in the future as more and more amps will be built but the people doing it don't have the knowledge to do it properly.