The Stax thread - Page 173  

Either at the cable entry point or in the recesses where the headband arc plugs attach?

Gone!

Carl, maybe it's time to close off this thread and formally start a Stax thread II with a new intro message and a link back to this thread and some properly charming pictures up front.

Everyone else, I think we can agree Carl is the one who would have to do this, in his role as unofficial Stax moderator.

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Yup, max. Its not as loud as I hope and definitely way softer than the 404s. Its like if the 404s are on max at 5 o'clock, the Lambdas are on something like 2-3 o'clock on the volume pot

Man, you are freaking me out. Could my Lambdas be faulty? Aw man... and I though I found a gem... being NOS and all. Dang.

Okay, plugged the Lambdas into the SRM1/MKII. Turned the volume up and it complies. But the left channel still softer than the right. Could it be that the 006t can't handle the older Lambda Pros as well? Weird.

NOS and Stax is not a good mix. I've had two NOS sets and they were both broken with corroded or broken wires. They looked great but were a bitch to get working again. Channel imbalance is a sure sign that there is some thing very wrong and their inefficiency is a bad sign too. I'm thinking that something has happened to the coating on the membranes, increasing their resistivity. There might even be some corrosion on the stators or the contacts. The bad new is that Lambda drivers aren't easy to fix like some of the other Stax stuff. I've had phones here that weren't used for years and they showed all of these signs but I let the run for a few days and they were ok. Try it...

Sorry about this basic query, chaps, but what does 'NOS' mean? I've worked out what BNIB means (very rare with Stax gear!), but NOS: something to do with being non-operative?

NOS means New Old Stock. You see it a lot with tubes. It means that something is old stock (probably not in production) but unused.

New Old Stock, i.e., old but have never been used.

Thanks for the prompt responses. But why would spritzer be so unlucky with NOS and Stax? I'd have thought NOS (now I know what it means!) would be OK. Why should Stax gear in particular suffer?

BNIB NOS Omega, SRM-T2 *drool* I don't think I'll ever see this combo in BNIB condition.

Kinda like your mom.....Bang , ZING!

jk

Storage conditions aren't always that great and some gear can be damaged by sitting around. All I'm saying is that every body should be careful when buying old Stax gear and have the seller check it out before buying. They don't often know how to set it up so help them.