The Headcase Stax thread

[gstjohn]

2 hours ago, bwck2000 said:

It is interesting that the SR-007S is sharing the same OFC cable as the entry-level SR-X1, rather than the HiFC cable from Hitachi used in L300 / L500 let alone the silver plated ones. 

Nice way to boost the sales of the L500mk2 and L700mk2 cables.🤣

[Oneguy]

You’re not wrong. One of the things I liked about estats was that cable rolling wasn’t a thing.

[Kung]

Many audiophiles in China can't stand the warm bass and dark tone of OG 007, then some people replace the OG 007 earpads with kennerton thror earpads to make 007 sound more transparent and neutral. The Japanese official website says that  007s earpads are sound absorbing, which improves quietness and refine the sound...It also looks like a reverse operation for current stax tuning but stax did it themselves, this makes thror 007 VS 007s very interesting...

And according to my experience in making earpads, the use of different cloth on the inside of the earpads will warm the tone, although to different extents, so I'm also curious, if 009/009s are replaced with 007s earpads, will it alleviate some wonky or bright problems and make the sound more natural.

[spritzer]

I do find that interesting as the commercially available electrostatic headphones in China are not as forward sounding as modern Stax, EH1, Q1, Q2 and naturally the King Sound models.  

It will be fun compare them as they might be trying to fix issues with the drivers with the earpads.  

[udurbalanced]

The aesthetic of the SR007S is a huge downgrade but if they borrow the ergonomics from the X9K I'd call that an improvement. The swivel-cup mechanism is the only thing I don't like about my SR007, and I can see the benefit of being able to replace the cable if it gets damaged.