It's not doing a good job of reproducing the audio signal. The scope display of input vs output is pretty easy to Understand.

The square wave test spritzer ran tells me everything I need to know. It's not a good choice. Nice try.

OK so noise can cause issues with ethernet. The symptoms are Packet loss. But normally this isn't the case. It would require Something noisy next to the cable. A ceiling run of cable laying On a fluorescent light is a common source. Other than that, data gets from a to b just fine. Rf would...

There are some decent Ebay pads that work good. A lot cheaper. I put a set on the hd650 about 5 years ago. Got rid of them the next year, so I can't tell you how they held up

I have less than $2500 in my speaker rig. I used to go check out dealer used gear all the time. A little patience pays off. $100k? Not unless it included building a room to put it in! Same with headphone rigs. And going to meets is a good start in finding what works. The 800 seems to take a lot...

I did a point to point wired board just for bias.

Pins are different diameters.

There are storage boxes that are airtight with foam inserts. Search for Apache cases. They are available in the US at Harbor Freight stores.

Hd58x is a very good headphone for the $. Even better at the short lived $135. I put it into a setup I used to use with hd650's. The sound is far better balanced. I could never get the hd650's to sound quite right. I have q701's, ps500's, and stax sr202's. The Stax are better, but the Senns are...

hd58x is now $135. If you are new to drop, you can sign up get an extra $20 off. Let the early xmas shopping begin!!!

My 202's has a little twist in the forks holding the earcups and causes them to make noise when moving around. I've been tempted to buy a new headband, or at least new forks.

I think audiophiles have come around on digital audio. The big issues have been solved. The industry has come up with solutions that match cd playback. And stepped it up to match other higher res formats. With some work, any MAC, windows, or linux machine will sound as good as each other. The...

Raspberry pi here. Windows gave me a ton of trouble with sudden cpu spikes that caused music stutters. In XP I could optimize it. Windows 10 not at all. And that was a pc running only my music and fubar to a dac. The Pi is rock solid , cheap and easy. My current dac hat has remote control and a...

When using the classic round stax extension cable with headphones, You CAN plug standard into pro bias. The plug is 5 pin, the socket Is 6 pin. Other than that, you can"t. So it's a universal cable for Pro and standard bias. I've seen someone make that mistake swapping around gear late at...

Some of the combos on the bay are listed by crazy people. They often pair stuff wrong and ask for $$$$. And they also like to state "not tested". Pro will work with standard bias stuff fine, you just lose impact and volume. SRD4's just are for electrets. Be aware older stax extensions will...

There is a headfi member that mods srd7 boxes to pro bias. He has had a few for sale here and has one on the bay Listed. You could also buy a standard bias unit and mod if yourself. I paid about $55 for one last year. Parts aren't expensive but there Is a challenge in whipping up a pro bias...

I've been running runeaudio and have it tied USB to an audiogd dac. I started with a pi2, went to a pi3. Big usb stick for my music and control it with my tablett. I use headphones and have a speaker rig. Been pretty happy with it. Had it for about 5 years now. Thought about a hat based dac, but...

I am doing some refresh work on my exstata hybrid. Did anybody out there happen to archive the setup instructions? The website stuff is all gone now.

Keep in mind a srm1 mkII is an older unit and may need to be re-capped. I did my unit just after getting it. The srm313 came with a sr202. It was a demo system. I don't consider either to be better, just a bit different in sound. As far as the srd7 goes, someone here mods and sells them moded...

The two units have different sound. The srm1 was a bit laid back. It paired better with sr-404s. The sr202 was better with the srm-313. I sold both of them and my 404s. The 202s remain here. I use them with the srd-7 and a vintage Sansui au717 The dynamics with a transformer box are very good. I...

It's a shame that Stax is all hung up in a distribution model from the 70's. For years the US market suffered from a lackluster partner who delivered poor service and even worse communications. Making universal voltage amps would be a great idea. They used to make most stuff this way. But what...

Any music track on repeat will do the same thing. As far as hours, thats an open ended disussion with no right answer. [

Sorry, had the Koss hv1 back in the 70's. More comfy and sounded better.

Interested. I've have a srd-7 as well as a srd6. Do you have a board layout you could post?

I've had a number of headphones through here. At the moment, a set of PS500's (with G-cush) are getting the most use. The hd-650's sound good, but the bass just never quite sounded right. I sold them, but may retry the Senn sound with a pair of hd-600's. The hd-650's with a bottlehead amp-now...