The Stax thread - Page 158  

I still think the Aristeaus has strong potential as a Omega 2 amp. I only heard the combo briefly, but I thought it was quite good under meet conditions.

Of course if I still weren't waiting for mine, I might have more of an opinion.... and picts...

Well, maybe one of akwok's will do. I'm thinking of keeping it when I get it because it should pass the WAF....



Best,

-Jason

It all changes once they have that ring on their finger. DO NOT FALL FOR THE EVIL PLOY !!!

x2

Besides, once they own your ass all the cash gets reallocated for things like furniture, curtains and household crap

I had a lot more toys when I was single and making one quarter of what I do now.

Dont ya know it! Suddenly everything you've ever loved is a waste of money. And what ever they buy is a necessity. They will SUCK you dry ("sucking" - not what your dirty little mind is thinking of). Whenever you show excitement and joy over something you really wanna have, they will give you that "well... it looks okay; if you REALLY REALLY need it" look, which just literally pours cold water into ya pants and drowns the excitement. Trust me.... And this is apart from their sudden disinterest in sex too.

*Reads*

Oh, that ES-1 looks nice!

*casually blows money on expensive toys without any thought to consequences or justifying it to anyone*

Huh. What you guys looking at me like that for?

...I presume that if you make it clear long before the ring goes on the finger that I am my own man and my toys are my toys and my money is my money, there *will* be a pre-nup and if you ever deny me my toys that I buy with MY money, you're in deep s**t... that doesn't work?

That is indeed a good looking amp Jason, hopefully it'll sound even better

In a word....No

OK, that's the last bit of evidence I need, I'm never getting married!

Sorry, guys, to be 2 pages late with this response, but the time-zone differences are showing up now!

This idea of modding my SRD6-SB (SB = Self-Biasing) to cut out the switch and PCB has obviously inspired feckn_eejit to try it on his SRD7, with the results he describes back on p.117. I've been fretting all night (I know, I know, sad isn't it?) how I could do this with the SB version, and came up with the same conclusion: if the original supply to the PCB (and switch, because as spritzer has pointed out, the switch also turns the bias circuitry on/off) is left in situ, and the transformers are direct-wired (beefily!) to the power amps, then it should all work.

My only problem is aesthetics: how to get these beefy cables out of the SRD6 box neatly!

And then, of course, there is the SRD7 question: should I try and get hold of one of these? Is it a major improvement over the SRD6 in terms of sound quality, or does everybody here seem to prefer the SRD7 because some versions of it can be used to drive Pro (high bias, 5 pin) earspeakers?

And, please remember, I'm very new to this Stax transformer malarky, but it does seem they offer something more than the Stax amplifiers (if driven by suitable power amps). (And what's particularly galling for me: I've only discovered this is in the past week, after spending only about 1/6th of what my main 3030 system cost! A real case of spending more not necessarily guaranteeing better sound quality... )

I fully understand!
I don't want you to pull the heavy amp out in the light just to take some pictures. Instead, spend your time tweaking the **** out of the system and let us know your impressions.

Some people obviously don't have their eyes open scammers!
He is using the exact same text and images as the real SR-Omega auction earlier this year...

Now you are talking!
I have never heard the SRM-007tII, but imo the SRM-007t are a great match to the SR-007. There are better amplifiers out there, but most of them are higher priced or difficult to get a hold of.

The Aristaeus is a beautiful looking amplifier, and I don't doubt it sounds great as a Omega II amplifier. Hope I will be able to audition one some day...

I've heard the prototype Aristaeus amp Justin had and while it was quite some time ago, all of us present were impressed. We did not have an Omega II at the time, just the HE90 and the HE60 and I think the Lambda Pro.

I will take more time to check it out as I would like to listen to the omega before i make change to my setup.

But I did order the headphone stand this morning from Woo Audio.

Thanks for the info.

I can't see why not... you should just have to keep the original lead which goes to the SRD-(x) hooked up to the power amp in parallel to the transformers. I'm not going to go ahead and say "YEAH, THIS'LL WORK" because I cannot try it as I don't own a self-biasing energiser, and there may be part of the equation that I'm missing. That said, if you can solder, this is not difficult to reverse without a trace of evidence as to what you've done. Hah, I didn't care about aesthetics - my SRD-7/Pro is sitting right behind the power amp with its cover off, and the yellow and black leads that go to the two transformers were JUST long enough to reach the binding posts (yes I did have to raise the SRD-7 up a few inches). Clearly this is optimal as any jumper wire means the signal is still going to have to go through those little wires. If the SRD6 has the same step-up transformers in it as the SRD7 and you do this mod, you're hearing the same thing as me.