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post #1576 of 18428
4/13/07 at 2:50am
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Originally Posted by Azure View Post
I'm a little lazy, so can somebody tell me the story on these:

http://headphile.com/hd14.jpg
http://headphile.com/hd14a.jpg

Did someone here buy them? How do they sound?
Check thrice's post on page 62.
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post #1577 of 18428
4/13/07 at 4:11am
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Originally Posted by Duggeh View Post
Mr. Takei says that their new amplification solution shoudl hopefully mean prices will come down in the autumn. With luck by several hundred dollors.
Sounds promising. especially if you plan to use a different amp anyway.


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Originally Posted by Spare Tire View Post
Hello people, sorry to be hijacking the tread, but does the Sigmas make me look totally awesome!
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v2...v_12_sigma.jpg
They look sillier in real life.


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Originally Posted by John Buchanan View Post
Re: The JJ Floats
My impressions pretty much line up with Duggeh's. NO low bass compared with either the Sigmas or Lambda Nova Signatures that I had at the time. Parts of Projekct 1's stick playing simply disappeared on the Float, whereas it was very present on either Stax. They were also a bit bright compared with either, but the dynamics were absolutely unbelievable. I didn't have them running on a good amp - that could have been a real eye opener.
I've got to try them some time. They sound really interesting.


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Originally Posted by Tachikoma View Post
I've just emailed them about that. I didn't order the box and stand/cover though =P (the box supposedly sucks? maybe for the money you'd have to shell out for one?)
Not so much sucks as completely pointless. The HE90 box it is not.
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post #1578 of 18428
4/13/07 at 4:16am
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Originally Posted by Spare Tire View Post
Hello people, sorry to be hijacking the tread, but does the Sigmas make me look totally awesome!
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v2...v_12_sigma.jpg
Holy crap. That photo is legendary!

Oh my goodness. For some reason that photo is making me want to keep my Sigma Pros.

Sigma Pros are so awkward that I think they're just so... awesome.
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post #1579 of 18428
4/13/07 at 4:49am
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Originally Posted by Spare Tire View Post
Hello people, sorry to be hijacking the tread, but does the Sigmas make me look totally awesome!
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v2...v_12_sigma.jpg
My father says they make me look like an alien but I think he's just jealous...

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Originally Posted by patrickamory View Post
Got my Japanese Raytheon 6FQ7s in my 006tII, warmed them up for about 4 hours, and biased them (thanks spritzer). The stock tubes were Electro-Harmonix btw.

First impressions - same piece of music that I was listening to last night on the E-H tubes. More transparent, less digital, less bass, takes more volume to get loud. All that said, not a HUGE difference from the stock tubes.

But I'll let them burn in a little bit more and get back to you. The key often is in extended listening sessions.
Let them burn in for a while, they will be better after 30-40 hours. These tubes have no major faults but I've never tried the E-H tubes so I can't compare.

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Originally Posted by Tachikoma View Post
Umm, here's their latest reply:

Should I go for the rest of the parts they have? Make a ghetto HE60 or something like that? Or alternatively, only buy the drivers and send them to larry for a headphile custom?
All you really need is the drivers, earpads and the earcups. You can modify HD6x0 parts for the rest and use a Stax extension for the cable.
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post #1580 of 18428
4/13/07 at 7:22pm
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Originally Posted by Duggeh View Post
Also in the news today. TakeT have agreed to send me an H2 and TR2 for review.
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Originally Posted by Duggeh View Post
Mr. Takei says that their new amplification solution shoudl hopefully mean prices will come down in the autumn. With luck by several hundred dollors.
Excellent news, both of them!
Can't wait to hear what you think of them, and to see some pictures.

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Originally Posted by Duggeh View Post
Egads, the Stax thread, dropping to page 3? What on earth is the world coming to?
This time I found it on page 3. Up to the top again...

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Originally Posted by patrickamory View Post
Got my Japanese Raytheon 6FQ7s in my 006tII, warmed them up for about 4 hours, and biased them (thanks spritzer). The stock tubes were Electro-Harmonix btw.

First impressions - same piece of music that I was listening to last night on the E-H tubes. More transparent, less digital, less bass, takes more volume to get loud. All that said, not a HUGE difference from the stock tubes.

But I'll let them burn in a little bit more and get back to you. The key often is in extended listening sessions.
I am still waiting for my Raytheon's. It will be great to hear what you think of them when they have burned in for ~50 hours.
My 007t will get its first tube roll pretty soon...
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post #1581 of 18428
4/13/07 at 8:50pm
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Originally Posted by Azure View Post
I'm a little lazy, so can somebody tell me the story on these:

http://headphile.com/hd14.jpg
http://headphile.com/hd14a.jpg

Did someone here buy them? How do they sound?
He's back!

Where are you on your head-fi journey Azure?
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post #1582 of 18428
4/14/07 at 12:51am
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Originally Posted by krmathis View Post
I am still waiting for my Raytheon's. It will be great to hear what you think of them when they have burned in for ~50 hours.
My 007t will get its first tube roll pretty soon...
I'm very interested in your findings. Got my quad pack the other day, along with directions for biasing, so be sure and report back on your results.
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post #1583 of 18428
4/14/07 at 3:41am
So I just hacked off about 3 feet of the stock power cord on my SRD-7 Pro. Added an external ground wire from the outer case and ran it to the ground on a nice Pass & Seymour plug. I honestly wasn't expecting much (if any )improvement, but damn I swear it opened things up on top a bit and a blacker backgound (possibly the grounding) and low and behold a little more dynamic range. That is all for now.
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post #1584 of 18428
4/14/07 at 3:48am
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Originally Posted by derekbmn View Post
So I just hacked off about 3 feet of the stock power cord on my SRD-7 Pro. Added an external ground wire from the outer case and ran it to the ground on a nice Pass & Seymour plug. I honestly wasn't expecting much (if any )improvement, but damn I swear it opened things up on top a bit and a blacker backgound (possibly the grounding) and low and behold a little more dynamic range. That is all for now.
I'm beginning to feel that there must be something untowards going on with the power supply of Stax's transformers (as opposed to in the iron itself). I've come to think the reason my Illusion unit sounds so much better than the SRD-7 is due to it being run off batteries.
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post #1585 of 18428
4/14/07 at 3:57am
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Originally Posted by Carl View Post
I'm beginning to feel that there must be something untowards going on with the power supply of Stax's transformers (as opposed to in the iron itself). I've come to think the reason my Illusion unit sounds so much better than the SRD-7 is due to it being run off batteries.
I think you are probably right. I still would love to get my hands on one of the Illusions.
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post #1586 of 18428
4/14/07 at 4:09am
I would like to open up the earcups of my newly acquired Stax SRX3 to check the connections inside, but I can't see how it is done. I tried searching this forum but didn't find an explanation.

Anyone able to help?
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post #1587 of 18428
4/14/07 at 4:16am
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Originally Posted by edstrelow View Post
I would like to open up the earcups of my newly acquired Stax SRX3 to check the connections inside, but I can't see how it is done. I tried searching this forum but didn't find an explanation.

Anyone able to help?
The part where the headband clamps on the driver housings are actually screws you can remove.
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post #1588 of 18428
4/14/07 at 5:01am
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Originally Posted by Downrange View Post
I'm very interested in your findings. Got my quad pack the other day, along with directions for biasing, so be sure and report back on your results.
The tubes shipped on Tuesday, so I expect them to arrive any day not.
Never tube-rolled an amplifier before, but I will hopefully get it right. Will report...
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post #1589 of 18428
4/14/07 at 5:43am
Does anyone know if the Stax earspeakers use two signals simultaneously at both electrodes (a direct signal at one electrode and an inverted signal at the other electrode)? Or is the signal split into the positive and the negative half of the wave and each half directed towards the corresponding electrode, so that in a given moment only one signal is acting at one of the electrodes?
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post #1590 of 18428
4/14/07 at 6:26am
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Originally Posted by brospin View Post
Does anyone know if the Stax earspeakers use two signals simultaneously at both electrodes (a direct signal at one electrode and an inverted signal at the other electrode)? Or is the signal split into the positive and the negative half of the wave and each half directed towards the corresponding electrode, so that in a given moment only one signal is acting at one of the electrodes?
In other words class A or class B? Both Stators see both parts of the sine wave otherwise there would be crossover distortion.
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