[bearFNF]

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Out of curiosity, has anyone had their electrostatics spontaneously fail from a passive issue such as dust collection or moisture?
 
I asked spritzer about whether the dust and minor pleather debris on the outside of my stator assembly would affect performance and he said that they wouldn't, and my ears tell me the same. Nonetheless I am concerned about the long-term longevity of the transducers. I am considering purchasing a pair of transducers as a backup but I'm against the idea of preventing someone who actually needs a replacement from being able to get one down the line.
 

Not sure if this will ease your worry or not, but, I have had my Lambda normal bias since ?1988? or so, they have been in humid hot conditions (when I was in Houston) for the first ?ten years? or so, and in cold climate (in Northern Illinois and then in Alaska, which was also humid during the summers) and now in Minnesota, very frigid in the winter (-30F ambient) and humid in the summer, they have been sitting out on a shelf covered only with a towel for the last, oh, nine years or so here in Northern Minnesota, and they still work just fine.  Also I am a dude that does not clean the dust off the shelves very often, surprise

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Hope that helps you feel a little better about the "dust" and humidity issues others have been talking about...of course as always, YMMV, IME, and YEMBDTM, etc etc.... 

 

[dukeskd]

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Hope that helps you feel a little better about the "dust" and humidity issues others have been talking about...of course as always, YMMV, IME, and YEMBDTM, etc etc.... 

 
Or simply, your luck may vary.

 

[DefQon]

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After posting it here you might as well expect that!

The seller should really remove the crumbled down foam bits from the drivers. Thank god I already own both the SBMK2 and one of the later versions of the Gamma Pro's.

 

[nemomec]

I will change/upgrade my current SRM-T1 with the SRM-T1S for my Signature Pro.
 
Is there any technical difference between these models out of the balanced intput? I have only found in the technical specs that the T1S has a wider frequenz range to 41 kHz vs 20 kHz of the T1.
 
thanks!

 

[DefQon]

According to some that own both the T1S and T1W is supposedly slightly inferior in sound to the original T1 due "to more components in the signal path", this was exceptionally outlined by golden-ears pkshan when I asked about it and was put off from buying a T1S due to that reason, only because the balanced input appealed more to me.

 

[dukeskd]

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According to some that own both the T1S and T1W is supposedly slightly inferior in sound to the original T1 due "to more components in the signal path", this was exceptionally outlined by golden-ears pkshan when I asked about it and was put off from buying a T1S due to that reason, only because the balanced input appealed more to me.

Maybe pkshan can come and chime in on this topic as we'll really appreciate his help on this matter.

 

[DefQon]

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Maybe pkshan can come and chime in on this topic as we'll really appreciate his help on this matter.

You might want to look at his post(s) contributed in this thread before asking him for any advice. I'm not joking because either he has golden ears or just full of it.

 

[dukeskd]

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You might want to look at his post(s) contributed in this thread before asking him for any advice. I'm not joking because either he has golden ears or just full of it.

As far as I am concerned, we need more golden ears.

 

[DefQon]

Indeed we do, I certainly wish I had some golden ears. 

 

[nemomec]

No good news for me, i need the second input of the t1s and they looks nicer than my t1 :confused_face(1):

 

[DefQon]

The only T1 amp I ever heard was the T1S, I liked the sound but I'm not sure how well the T1 is. Might want to wait for some others to chime there Mario.

 

[telecaster]

Need more golden ears than golden mouths.

 

[spritzer]

T1 and T1S are pretty much identical.  Relays take care of the source selection so should be as transparent as is possible.  The T1W is a bit problematic as it routs the signal all over the place.  I've had them side by side and heard differences but what caused them is harder to predict.  Tubes weren't identical and neither had been recapped. 

 

[Beefy]

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As far as I am concerned, we need more golden ears.

 
We need more science to determine those who actually have golden ears, compared with those who think they do.

 

[DefQon]

Hey I just hit the 2000 hour mark on my Lambda's, I feel that the sound has improved somewhat more and there is more realism to the treble with vocals. I'm guessing a 2000 hour burn in does help with these stats aye?