yates7592
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Anyone want to buy my minty SR009 with 18 months warranty remaining for $8k?
Hoping Sennheiser will come out with a new flagship... >_>
That's a sidegrade.....
Reminds me of this video...
I wouldn't jump on the hype train. Both the SR-009 and 007 are some of the greatest headphones available today.
Hard to imagine how much better can you get.
Are they going to attack the New Orpheus, which isn't a "killer of them all", as some people say? Will 009 be declassed? Don't think so.
Nothing can declass these headphones. As you even see, older & vintage Stax are still used & wanted. Because many of them offer unique SQ, they have their own soul.
What can we expect? Probably another great Stax to add to the collection, switching between 009, 007 and "010" depending on the mood.
And by the way: maybe Stax would be better off if they focused not on the high-end models (as 009 is high-end enough), but on popularising the electrostatic technology within the general public?
I would be happy to see an "urban" closed model of Stax, for normal people, who buy Beats and listen to them on the metro train. I would even buy it myself. Baby Stax (SR-002) isn't a solution, since it's open, a great headphone nevertheless.
And by the way: maybe Stax would be better off if they focused not on the high-end models (as 009 is high-end enough), but on popularising the electrostatic technology within the general public?
I would be happy to see an "urban" closed model of Stax, for normal people, who buy Beats and listen to them on the metro train. I would even buy it myself. Baby Stax (SR-002) isn't a solution, since it's open, a great headphone nevertheless.
IMO Electrostatics are too fragile and dust averse to really be a fully portable HP system.
IMO Electrostatics are too fragile and dust averse to really be a fully portable HP system.