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.......hmmmm, never thought about that, and I have the perfect place to keep the batteries....

I don't like it, it doesn't go with anything I'm wearing. It needs moar plaid.

Good to hear you're liking them. The 'reflex dot' should fix that right up if you haven't done it already. This shows a good size dot to try.

I'm gonna get some tube heaters and stuff some tubes in my Beta 22 to make it moar tubey and betterer. I was also thinking of randomly soldering blackgates inside because everyone knows moar blackgates = win!

Shit, that fucker is big!

Man, that sucks. I hope she turns up safe and sound. They're pretty resilient so I'm keeping my fingers crossed too.

I'm still confused about who decided baby shit brown would make a good headphone color for the 404. \

Very odd. I'm not sure which way to go from there. It shouldn't need a huge reflex dot to bring the treble out to play, nor a ton of damping. My woodies have bigger cup volume and only two thin sheets of semi-dense felt in them, nothing on the driver except the standard cloth it comes with and the dot over that.

Jagwire is a fucking Jagbag bitch, ungrateful little bitch.

That's very strange, I used a small reflex dot covering the middle hole and the treble is just sweet on mine. Though, my mods are rather extreme in other areas.

They're not particularly rare and can be had for a reasonable price. It does pay to scour the internets for them, UK, Germany, Japan etc.

I found that makes them a little too mellow...

You can try a small reflex dot on the front of the drive to calm the harshness, that's what I did.

If he did, they must have thought it was raining alcohol!

Every time I look at Pair site they are out of stock of everything. where do you guys get your parts?

Yeah, the colors are pretty icky, another reason to go with the SR-Lambda Anyway, yes, the Beta 22 is going to be massive and heavy once all that crap is inside it. I may even build an extra deep case to hold it all.

Bah! I'm sure KG could quickly whip up a zero ohm amp for us to play with

The Scintillas and Divas are fucking sweet. I fell in love the first five minutes I heard them. Oh, and awesome slammin' bass.

Not so's you'd notice. Only the cable and color is different and Stax cable is decent anyway. Not worth the extra $100 imo. If you manage to build a MkII style circuit with transfos, I wants one to stuff in my Beta 22 so it's all integrated. I'm going to stuff a Sony transfo in it too for my electrets. I'm getting tired of all these damn boxes. I might stuff a Buffalo DAC in it as well just for good measure at a later date

Aaaaaaw, that is soooo cute! That Jesus, what a guy!

Hrmmm nope, why wait...

I heven't heard the Lambda Pro or Signature, just the original one, 303, 404 and Nova sig. The old one is smoother and fuller to me, with a less sharply defined top end... some call it the Stax etch, as in it's too sharply presented. Buying second hand is always a good thing, especially with Stax as for the most part they are very reliable, however, the Lambdas are famous for never dying. The blasted things live forever. When the end comes, the cockroackes will be sat there eating twinkies and listening to the Lambdas As to the SRD's, the MkII is more valuable to many of us running both normal and Pro sets, there are probably less of them in circulation too which pushes the price up. However, as you've found yourself, the Normal bias runs them just fine so you don't need to rush into a Pro box. The transformes are the same, only the bias circuit is different. Whichever one you find will be fine... be prepared for a battle though, there are quite a few Stax fans who will want it as well I bought mine through a Tokyo classified ad and a lot of negotiation with the seller. Good luck.

Yeah, I like the normal bias Lambda myself though I still ended up trading it. It was my Fave of all the variants I heard. If you want a pro energizer, be prepared to either wait for a good deal or pay big bucks for it. Especially the MkII. I lucked out on mine and got it reasonably cheap but they can go to $500. The SRD7 pro goes for less. The Normal bias will run them happily though, you'll lose some volume and dynamics but at least you're in a good position to bide your time for a deal with that and the SRD-X in hand. I does suck that the old parts are all tapped out, we normally just buy another complete one and keep the old one for spares.

Heh, usually around Broadway, and pretty much anywhere else I might be. I'll more often be wearing big woodied orthos though as they keep out the noise better

Happy spliff day