The Stax thread (New) - Page 331

If you do want to keep your amp, this device might come in handy:
SM Pro Nano Patch
It's a small passive volume control for analog signals.
It isn't that expensive but not cheap either, since it will cost you about the same as that Harman Kardon amp you have dug out.

Good find; that's still cheaper than the one other similar product I know of, the A Designs ATTY. Still, probably just going to go the amp route at this point.

Here's how it works: you'll get the amp because it's so much more interesting than an attenuator, and because it's cheap and is a sentimental match for the Stax stuff. Then you'll find that in some ways it's much better than your other, much more expensive amp because somehow it just works on the scale of the old Stax-- but at the same time, there will be something you miss in the sound that your other amp gave you in spades, and you can't stop hearing that it's not there. At that point, come back to this thread and tell us about it, and we'll tell you to get a Blue Hawaii.

Nahhh he's going to need a new upgraded BH with much larger CCS and a huge dual mono tube rectified and choke loaded PSU.

Is SR-007MK2 comfortable to wear ? What's the fit like compare to Sennheiser HD650 ?

The Mk1 is to me much, much more comfortable. The HD600 is only good after years of use and they still don't disappear like the SR-007. The thick headband and huge earpads make for a very comfy headphone but this is true of nearly every Stax headphone ever made.

Has SR-007MK2 got that cramp effect when brand new ?

You you mean the clamp effect of the Sennheiser HD's? Then no but the metal arc could use some adjusting to get the right sound as the earpieces do not swivel on an axis like 99% of other headphones. It's easy to though.

As long as SR-007MK2 is suitable for smaller heads.

You can bend them as you wish and also use it to control the angle of the drivers. It's a customization that actually works as you can have mad bass or nice subtle bass with a full midrange.

I like it when you talk dirty!

That's what I do best...

Fill that amp with tantalum and Riken resistors, NOS Pio caps in the PSU, Tamura transformers and chokes and top it all off with a 4-gang Alps.RK50....

Thats kinda what I did with my speaker amp Tantalum and Riken resistors, Russian MIL PIO and Elna caps, MIL spec power transformers, but the best part was a MIL spec step volume control. It was laser cut on the diamond composite board. These things cost about 90 rubles each for bulk shipments of 5000 when the factories were buying them from one another in 1970's. My friend got them 10 for $1 Now If I can only mobilize him make a BH like amp for me

I own a SR Lambda Pro classic and a Lambda Nova Basic

I prefer the Lambda Pro classic because of the much broader soundstage and larger dynamics. The Lambda Nova Basic is more "in your face" also the sound is less stereo than the pro -classsic, the Basic has a larger mid area and is slightly more detailed.

I am thinking about replacing the Nova Basic (diaphragm thickness 2 micron) with another Lambda (f.e. a signature or 404 or a nova classic /sig.) Which Lambda will be something like my pro classic and is more detailed

Hah! I am utterly beyond temptation.

(Uh oh, does that mean I lose my Head-Fi account?)