The Headcase Stax thread

[spritzer]

With no inside pics it is hard to tell but I had the Mk1 and it was utter trash and dangerous to the end user.  There are pics here somewhere of that but yeah, utter garbage

[K3cT]

23 hours ago, spritzer said:

With no inside pics it is hard to tell but I had the Mk1 and it was utter trash and dangerous to the end user.  There are pics here somewhere of that but yeah, utter garbage

Thanks, I would like to get into stats (particularly the CRBN) but it seems nicer if I can use my existing setup. 

[spritzer]

Good transformers are a great way to do that and are definitely getting more popular.  

[K3cT]

37 minutes ago, spritzer said:

Good transformers are a great way to do that and are definitely getting more popular.  

Yeah a couple of months ago I posted about the BHSE but unfortunately the seller went MIA so that didn’t work out lol.

I am a bit concerned my main amp, a SET 2A3 amp is a bit on the lower power side. In my experience it can drive the 32 Ohm transformer for RAAL Immanis fine but I don’t have much experience with e-stat interfaces. 

[spritzer]

2-3W or so?  That is very much on the low side but it always depends on overall system gain and how loud you listen.  A Stax SRD-7 Mk2 should work as the ratio on those is on the high side.  

[K3cT]

2 hours ago, spritzer said:

2-3W or so?  That is very much on the low side but it always depends on overall system gain and how loud you listen.  A Stax SRD-7 Mk2 should work as the ratio on those is on the high side.  

Yeah, around that range, if I'm not wrong it's about 2.5W into 32 Ohm load. I noticed that you have a Sansui variant of the SRD-7, will that work nicely as well?

[spritzer]

It should work, the ratio is a bit higher than the Stax ones.  Ultimately it's not about power but voltage in the system or voltage swing rather.