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Sigma would be the hardest to let go and for sentimental reasons QP85

Unfortunately for my finances I am not done with new acquisitions I need to try a few more phones and after that I have a feeling I will have a small scale sell off. I see SR-007 in my future, but that will require some selling and deal searching.

So far I sold my second YH-1, Float II, QP70 & 15, Magnavox 1A9217, AKG K340, AKG K280 and SR-40. It was SR-40 that started the Stax escapade that resulted in SR-Lambda, SR-303, SR-Gamma, SR-Sigma, ESP950 and SR-001. I am in the process of selling my SR-Gamma and getting Nova Signature. I am not even going to mentioned the dynamic and ortho phones. It's curse I tell you.

Thanks man. He did a great job, it's functionally and esthetically very pleasing.

Too much I don't even want to count.

Thanks, monkey-man. It was an experiment, and i'm pretty happy with how it turned out.

I'm willing to make more of them, I'm just unsure what to charge for them. The parts add up to something like $15, including the extension cord from koss, but there's a fair amount of labor involved because the flange of the WPI stax plug has to be carved off, and the copper parts look like hell straight from the hardware store.

I'm not greedy by nature. Interested parties should make me an offer.

A good friend of mine worked in an art bronze foundry for several months, and knows quite a bit about patina chemistry, so some fairly artistic colorings are available for the handle, if you're not into the polished look, or just matte black paint. No idea what the added cost there would be.

To give you an idea of the scale of what you could spend on this cable, apuresound makes some stax-to-koss cables, and charges iirc $140 each for them - it looks like he starts with a WPI plug and then replaces the hollow steel pins with milled silver pins, probably at considerable cost. It also looks like he makes the handle out of an N-connector, which fits around the original flange on the WPI plug, and then covers it with heatshrink - this means it's significantly larger in diameter than mine, and might not seat fully in recessed stax sockets -- note the recessed sockets on the amp f2d has his adapter cable plugged into.

HOoooLLLy $%^*

You're going down a dark path my man

Sentimentality is why I still have the Float 2, I havent listened to them whatsoever since I finished the Orthodome I.

You see Ergo AMT in your future. Break with the norm, dew eet.

Curse maybe, learnign curve maybe. Go through the patterns and find what it is you're looking for. If I could pick one headphone at the minute it'd be the O2. But I still firmly believe that with more attention, the AMT and the H2 can stand alongside.

Problem for me is the Quad ESL57 budgeting eating into the AMT/H2 path.

10-12 weeks. Fingers Crossed. Then I can let speaker-fi be.

I have been set with my Apogees for about 10 year now But something bad happened a few days ago. My kid stock his fingers in one of the ribbons It's not damaged but it's a bit bend cosmetically and now I need to find something he can't damage I also have SAP Trio so I am set for Jazz, but I still need something for rock and electronic music. I am thinking KEF 107

So as you can see I have been in a lot of flux only on headphone front

[QUOTE=Faust2D;4433553] My kid stock his fingers in one of the ribbons It's not damaged but it's a bit bend cosmetically and now I need to find something he can't damage

Gee, I hope your kid's fingers are okay?!!

Well yeah, the kid is fine. I had a little talk with him but at 2 years old he does not really understand what he did. He just wanted the music to play

I'll try to get some pics in the next couple of days!

It will include:

TWO SR-Lambda with TWO SRD-X
SR-Lambda Signature with SRM-1 Mk2 Pro
SR-003 with Nuforce Icon with SRD-7 Pro
SR-5NB Gold Edition with Travagans Red with SRD-7 SB
SR-001 Mk1 Audiocats modded with Mk2 phones
SR-001 Mk2 with Mk1 phones (backup)
Senn HE60 with Senn HEV70
Spare SRD-5

8 complete sets of stats and amps/drivers

I didn't post this until the auction was over - I watched/lurked, and looks like Scompton head-fier won it: Stax SR-3 Headphones SRD-5 Adapter Earspeakers Vintage - eBay (item 320269808015 end time Jul-06-08 22:10:37 PDT)

I sense you have a Stax setup in every bathroom.

..and I raise you both (or perhaps not).

I will remember this poker theme for use several months from now .

I left the king of electrostats out of my picture so the Koss wouldn't be embarrassed :P