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I just looked and my SRD-X LED lights up, even with no AC power or headphones plugged in. While it was on I tried the SR-5 with the SRD-X, and they definitely have more bass punch with it. I'll have to try the SR-5 with the Nuforce Icon and SRD-6 or SRD-7SB that I have laying around later.

Just popped open the SRD-X to have a look. It's a pair of Toshiba TA7222AP 5.8w chip amps driving a pair of transformers.

And the LED is actually just busted off inside, but is very easy to replace.

Oh, fwiw, the front panel led is just a normal led with a thin breakable stem poking through the front panel. On mine, the LED had broken off of it's stem bit and was just dangling inside.

As luck would have it, I have three similar LEDs with stems the same diameter, and the LED in the SRD-X is socketed. So i just pushed out the old and pushed in the new. I believe that radioshack may include one of these in one of their LED assortments, though i may have gotten mine from a surplus dealer.

And here's the annoying part: You can disassemble the SRD-X easily without removing the volume knob. Reassembly is a bit trickier without removing it. And it's a splined shaft. Edit: And it's glued on.

The latest round with eBay seller: PS: DO NOT DO BUSINESS WITH "fairviewmick" on eBay. He seems quite pleased to have scammed me into bidding on his SR-5. The phones don't sound bad, but it is the principle of the whole deal, all I ask is that he be fair and honest.

HeadphoneAddict. Sad to hear run running into such problems.
The eBay seller seem to have given you faulty information, and hence you have not received what you paid for.

Hopefully eBay/PayPal take your side and refund your money.

More sillyness:

It seemed pretty clear from his three replies that he was not going to negotiate, so I filed the dispute. As far as I can tell he has not responded to this on paypal like he said. I again offered to accept a full refund, or to take a partial refund of $40 and I keep this. We'll see.

I wont post any more of this until it is over, unless someone asks... Caveat Emptor is one slogan I'll have to remember.

ON A POSITIVE NOTE: My neighbor will give me $75 for them if I don't have to return them to the seller.

More comments on the SRD-X - which is being fed by my Bijou headphone amp, which is just 6n1p's and 6n6p's.

High end it aint. This is probably the lowest-end of all stax amps. However, it aint bad either.

What it boils down to is, this thing is basically an srd-6 driven by a pair of car radio chips. Considering that, it works surprisingly well.

At least, the transformers are roughly the same size as those found in the 6 and the 4 - the windings may be different. Or not. I haven't measured them.

I suspect that it can be directly driven by a line-level output, but i'm not certain of that.

like HPA says it's a little dry, but it's got pretty fair punch and dynamics to it as well.

I never like to attribute to malice what can more easily be attributed to sloth, so, here's a alternate theory:

He's never listened to them and doesn't know if they work.

He got 'em from someone else who said they worked. Maybe even already boxed up. Not checking them out for himself (or, hey, photographing them) was stupid of him.

When you asked about the color, they probably really were already boxed up.

So, like a moron, he just ran a google image search. What's interesting here is that if you search for "stax SR-5" you get a bunch of 1st gen SR-5's. If you search for "stax SR5" the first image that looks like a headphone is an SR-5 Gold. And so is the second one.

Maybe he searched regular google and found a thread or post here describing an SR-5 NB and didn't look any further.

I'll wager that there are more fools than villains in the world.

Which doesn't mean that he shouldn't accept it back. And he's certainly being obstructionist about that. It's a hassle, but sometimes when you're stupid, you cause yourself excess hassle.

Nope. Be said they were "working fine in his Carver system until an hour before he boxed them up".

Here in Dallas, there's hoards of people buying up auction
and garage sale finds for EBAY re-sale. Craig'slist is also full of
bargain hunters looking for EBAY material. A little research will
show who's selling their prized headphones, and who's re-selling
whatever he finds without knowledge or testing.
In other words, buy here or Audiogon. EBAY is risky, so don't
overbid. I've bid on hundreds of EBAY items, and only won a couple
of things because I won't risk much money on stuff from strangers.

I know this will sound crazy, but I'm all worked up over a $100 auction with $12 shipping because the guy lied to me, not because I didn't get a deal. I'd say $100 is a good price for SR-5/SRD-6 that sounds good after a 3 minute charge up, and I did get them nice and clean and shiny with a bit of hard work. The SRD-6 driven by Travagans Red 5 watt amp sounds nice with them.

It's the principle of the mater that has me upset, it's about not getting what he said I was bidding on - and then having him act like if he didn't state it in the auction itself then I have no right to expect him to deliver anything he promised via eBay messaging service.

Someone interested in a Stax SRM-T2 and SR-Ω?
Then you may want to check out this auction on Yahoo! Japan...

Bid start at 525,000 yen, or $4,950 in a more familiar currency.

Yahoo!¥ª¡¼¥¯¥·¥ç¥ó - STAX SRM-T2 ¤È SR-¦¸ ¥¤¥ä¡¼¥¹¥Ô¡¼¥«¡¼

If I were rich, I'd jump on this.

Are there 3rd party services that provide shipping for non-japanese speakers buying obscure Japanese headphones (or other goods) from yahoo Japan?

Saw that, a rarity that probably NEVER reappear again. But its price is way beyond me. Hope that no one bids and it gets relisted at a more sane price.