The Stax thread - Page 18  

They dont. And when they do, more than an Orpheus system I shoudl imagine.

[QUOTE =TomH]Little Stax Lambda love here... decades of flawless performance and always a wow factor. After trying every flavor of dynamic I could afford to buy, I always come back to the electrostats for the best listening experience. Surely, today's crop of good amps and updated dynamic designs are better than ever, but still not there, just something missing IMHO.[/QUOTE]

You said it! During the past few months I've been switching between my K1000 and my Stax...quite an experience. Sure, the K1000 has the slam, the punch, the grab by the scruff of the neck... it even has the ability to let me hear that subtle, tiny harpsichord tinkling away in some ancient piece! Then I return to the Stax to find that the Stax has all of the aforementioned and then more! That "more" is hard to describe. The Stax presents the music with a kind of "togetherness" that somehow eludes the K1000. How can I best explain this "togetherness"? Well, imagine if you will, a stern faced K1000 entering the orchestra pit and shouting.. "hi you, get over here, you back there move over... now, let's go, let's go"!!... and yes, the K1000 does manage to get this unruly bunch to produce some phenomenal music! Then picture the Stax. The Stax enters the pit with a smile, greets everyone cordially.. instruments take their places without any urging or prodding..everyone knows exactly where they should be... and then they play. They perform with a cohesiveness that give the music a kind of "aha, yes, that's it!" quality that is missing in the dynamic phones.
I have tried to explain the difference between the "stats" and the "dynamics" but actually, words are not quite adequate to explain this difference. One has to experience this difference.

Ahh, I should have figured. More photos! http://staxt2.hp.infoseek.co.jp/stax3_1.htm

omg lookit those EL34s in there! and a quad of 7308 tubes, my faves!

I WANT. I actually just drooled looking at this pic.

Thanks for the T2 stuff How about some ancient 80's DarthStax? Took this at 12:30 midnight, just for you guys:



The [ancient] 14S. Did they put enough stuff in there?

The 404/313 is a fine setup and I'm seeing way too much tosh in here about this combo. If you need to run low bias, there is an older version SRM 313 which does that too. It is also reliable, sounds good, runs just warm and was made for the 303/404 series phones.

No transformer, it's easy to set an internal jumper to 117v

Cool, I guess that means that I should be able to get that SRM-313 on eBay. Do you have a picture or anything that indicates which jumper I have to set?

My 404's just arrived, by the way. They look so good and comfortable, but unfortunately I can't use them

Oh, and what's the deal with the two-in-one volume knob on STAX amps (How it says that the top one is left and the bottom one is right)? Are they there to control the volume of each output separately? Or are they there to control to volume of each channel separately (I read somewhere about somebody saying how convenient it is that you can control both left and right channels separately)?

Do a search for "100v" should be able to find it. (And each channel seperately for the volume control)

I'm assuming this is it:

http://gilmore.chem.northwestern.edu/stax313-100v.jpg
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http://gilmore.chem.northwestern.edu/stax313-120v.jpg

Yikes, I thought that it was just switching one of those physical jumper pins around that you see on motherboards. Didn't realize that I'd have to take my soldering iron at an expensive STAX amp. It doesn't look hard, but just the idea of taking a soldering iron at my new STAX amp is a bit unsettling

Ah, so then the top knob is for the left output and the bottom one is for the right output?