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The Headcase Stax thread

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Yes, but what the hell is "semi-panoramic sound"?  Upper half?  Right half?  Center half?

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    Arrived yesterday and it really opens up every electrostatic headphone that I own. I was looking for an amp that can bring more bass out of my HE90 than HEV90 so I drained my pocket to bid on this and

  • I have been getting back at this..working up to a limited run of these as the STAX SR-X9000 and Audeze CRBN have made that need to happen. But the chassis is extraordinarily expensive and difficult to

  • Isn't everybody glad that I'm crazy enough to buy this stuff and have Kevin rip it apart?   

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The box is amazing, great sense of spaciousness and fantasic noise floor. I think there were some headphones inside but I tossed those aside trying to get at the box

Lamda Signatures are great at lower volumes, if I had a proper amplifier these would be going straight to the office. They seem to compress a bit dynamically when you drive them at higher volumes. 

 

Pads are peeling a bit off the frame, I never understood why they didn't opt for a non-adhesive solution like the omega series

Probably because the LS came out like almost decades before the Omega series and Stax was still progressing through with the different materials available at the time?

the adhesive pad thing still hasn't changed up until the sr507 right?

All Lambdas have the earpads glued to the baffle, including all of the new ones.  Only difference is that with the new ones the drivers aren't glued to the other side of the plate but mounted in housings instead. 

 

The Lambda Signature was released in 1987 so six years prior to the SR-Omega.  All the SR-1 through 5 units had loose earpads only fixed in place with small adhesive dots. 

I can't remember how much I paid for my SRA-7S but it wasn't cheap. 

Yeah seems like there are some serious Stax collectors out there in the East even. Last time I saw a Stax SRA-7S that was literally in pieces it still went for a fetching 30000 yen. 

The Item description says it's not guranteed to work since the poster does not have a headphone to try the amp with.

Well thats usually the description for nearly all used electronics on yahoojp. I.e. junk.

it is scam do not want!!

 

btw I found a sigma pro, I'm a believer. this shit is nuts

I don't know. I heard about a newbie named birgir wilson who was labeled Mother Of Treachery on another site and so pretty much got banned for spelling technical words correctly.

Maybe it's the same bloke who's copying kevin carbon.

All this rumour and innuendo is makingh me consider the AudioValve LUMINARE and VERTO as the only genuine STAX equivalents in existence.

 

All these new fandangled designs and models are confusing.

 

Stick to the known products, i say.

 

 

Yeah... I'd go with Audio Valve too.  Such honest and upstanding company.  :laugh:

the fact is that unless i use piles of NC machines to make stuff

(in which case i'm not really making it) birgir and justin do a way

better job of assembly. I just don't have the patience.

Me needs some NC stuff...  :) 

 

I also need a shill to post non stop about my stuff on HF.  Anybody want to get a free amp or something?  ;D

allow me, all I do is post bullshit anyway

 

I already spammed the gilmore design portfolio like 4x over

Gotta love those SR-X Mk3 Pro's.   :)  Just sent out my last set but to the best home imaginable. 

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