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More found fun....  

As the official patron saint of painters tape I appreciate the graphics but still feel like there’s room to grow there and that we should employ a kid with a Cricut to do you better. 😁

Yeah, pretty much.   I was clearing up and found the broken X1's so time to do some tinkering.  Sure enough, one driver started failing after an hour or so it's trash at this point... time for something drastic.  I opened them up and nothing looks wrong so I just added some coating to the diaphragm, just a tiny bit.  It's been an hour now and they sound pretty much balanced so this might have worked but it adds another issue, are Stax having coating issues 65 years in?   Another thing about the X1, the drivers are wired out of phase as in the + signal goes to the back stator.  Might be worth adding a cheater plug to these to reverse the phase to try out and the earpads on the X1 are clearly made by the same company as the 007S pads.  

Work has been continuing to use photos that I’ve been shooting for publicity and Congressional communication so I decided that rather than keep shooting with my personal camera that it was high time to request a replacement.  They asked what I wanted so I spec’d the following: 1. Body - Sony A7R5 - I’ve gotten used to the Sony ecosystem through my A7IV and figured what the heck, might as well have all the megapixels.  I don’t need 120FPS so the A9 series was not compelling and while it would have been fun to shoot with an A1II budget was somewhat of a consideration. 2. Lenses - I’ll continue to shoot my A7IV with it’s 24-240mm so figured I should cover an expanded range with this rig and be able to shoot high(er) quality.  So a 24-70mm F2.8 GMII and a 100-4000mm F4.5/5.6 coupled with a 2x teleconverter round out the bag.   I’ve got the whole shebang with me on vacation to get used to the platform and find its limits (me) but sheesh, 60MP is a lot to work with.  Initial impression is that it’s all very similar to the A7 but doesn’t shoot low light as well.  That won’t be much of a concern at work and if/when night time becomes the right time I’ll switch back to my A7 for those situations.  The 100-400 has as lot of pull and with the 2x, it’s pretty absurd.  That was lightly touched in LR and just a quick handheld at sunset.  I’ll have to contribute more to the HC coffers if I start pushing up 40MB drink photos.  And 12,800 starts to get a bit noisy so I’ve reduced the max ISO to 3200 for now to see what I can still grab. And [EDIT] seems like the forum software intelligently down-sampled that image to a more manageable 5MB.   It is wild what you can do for fun crops with this much real estate.