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Originally Posted by ironbut
The SR Omega came out in 1993 and O2 in 98 according to the Stax History web page. The one and only thing I heard about an Omega 3 was that the Stax product page when updated with the new versions of the tube amps also had a listing for an Omega 3 but was quickly changed back to the old listing for the O2. I didn't see it myself so I thought that it was probably a typo, but after thinking about it, they wouldn't have changed a product listing if they were just going to relist the same text. And then there's the mention of a new top of the line stat by K. Gilmore. I was starting to seriously save for an O2 and maybe a Blue Hawaii when I heard that and the ES-1's were starting to roll in, Headamps new tube es amp, the upgrade of the McAlister,.. well, I decided to just get a used older Stax ( SRXmk3, Lamda pro) and wait for the dust to settle. I think it's a pretty exciting time to be into cans myself!
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In my opinion, new Stax came out with the Omega II because the original Omega had far too small a profit margin and unacceptable reliability. It was forced onto the market to compete with the Orpheus. You can see in the Omega II's design lots of little shortcuts (not necessarily of the bad kind), like PCB stators that have been used to drive the production cost down. So Stax moved from the Omega 1 to Omega 2 for a reason. But what reason is for them to move over to an Omega 3? They've got sales, they've got margins.
In any case, older Staxes (SR-X, SR-5N, Lambda Signature, etc) really aren't
that far behind the Omega II. It's the amplification that varies the most across the price range more than the headphones.
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Originally Posted by Meyvn
Probably nothing; just allowing it to be a different flavor of sound. From what he's said to me when I was considering putting different drivers in different housings, he always said "just because the driver is designed that way doesn't mean it ONLY works that way." And if it's true about the 4070, then apparently Stax thinks it can work, too.
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The 4070 uses what is effectively a bass reflex housing to drain the backwave. Simply using a closed baffle on a dipole speaker is not a particularly good idea, unless a lot of care is put into the design.
