Orthodynamic Roundup - Page 788

You did, but I was worried the noobs might not, y'know.


Ah, but our ambition is made of sterner stuff.


Good. That's all that matters. We like to say that all ears hear differently, yet when a headphone that's balanced and more or less flat is presented to our ears, we immediately recognize it.

I've never heard the 4070, but from what I understand, it's a kind of sideways development of the SR-X. That's all very well, but like you I do wonder, just as I have in this thread in relation to the Orthos, what would have resulted had Stax not abandoned both the simplicity of the SR-X chassis and the development of the SR-X driver.


I submit (though I'm far from certain-- what I'm about to describe is surely not what I'd call a "musical" distortion) that you're describing the closed-in feeling, the lack of headstage that bothered me back in the day. Details are folded back into a much smaller space than they should occupy, and the effect is of having all the details (which are certainly present) crowded together and, er, staxed on top of one another.

To me this is by far the most important failing of the headphone, and it could be the reason Stax left it for dead. You can see why I've been dreaming of an ortho (or a 'stat, I'm not that picky) that could do the job of an SR-X (flat response, excellent transients all up and down the spectrum, good dynamic linearity) with the headstage of something like the ECR-500.

I'm hoping Don B's latest transplant will succeed or at least point us in the direction we need to go. It could also be that Audeze succeeded; I haven't heard it so I don't know.


I was incited to riot by that famous running-ninja-gagger Kabeer in post 11788, I swear. I could not help meself, m'lud.

Also luckily, you live in the era of the Cheap Good Little Speaker, so it could happen that you'll scroe a couple of your own little woogers (and the speakers they're in) pretty soon. Speakers can teach you about headphones and headphones can teach you about speakers. Small speakers make it easy to experiment. Just a thought.

In my opinion that's a very good ideal to have. Anyway, you can see why I got so excited about the original NA market Fostex T50, since it's very much like the SR-X, right down to the limited headstage.

Again, binaural recordings tell the tale. I understand our own Duggeh is considering the get of the necessary fixin's to roll his own. If this comes to pass, I expect he'll share some audio clips if we axe politely.


I hope you can find the hi-bias drivers to do the swap, but even if you can't, an SR-X, a Lambda and a Jecklin is not a bad place to stop, not at all.

You suggestive devil you! And where would DAC deploy this micropore? right up against the driver?