Enjoying all the Code Geass from the Note 4 and Stax 001. Will get the 003 mkii on Monday and look forward to trying it with the glofeedback modded 727 and BHSE.
Deadly Lover, would you (or others) be interested in potentially a split for much improved "drop in" electrodes for the 002/003mkii or any of the Stax iems?
We can, could use steel or even much more(z) better, Magnesium/Al alloy: the material thickness in the 001 is (a copper-sheet) .1625mm and the holes are .25mm wide, much smaller and more improved than the 003mkii/002. At around 1.15mm wide. I will know on Monday, but I believe spacer distance is the same between 002/001 in just the diaphragm ring. I know I'm being kind of cryptic because I just had to reloadand rewrite this message on the, my phone, but these are so very simple toopen and play/finnik, replace electrodes for, with.. we could use between .115 or .875mm thick Mg/Alloy plate and have around .14 or .15mm holes for even more even, better field strength (at very least around the 11.5mm hole structure) as is seen in the 001..
See this, AudioCats ENTIRE post (and please account for the modded 212 as read and reported in the post) for straight up, forward comparisons between the electrostatic 001/002 @
#post 458 by AudioCats.
Could SOUND premliminary but it is straightforward, I would be interested in your take, possibly doing this, splitting cost. The iems can be Extremely easily taken apart with next to no risk: the diaphragm are fairly similar (and probably, themselves sound fairly similar at 2.1 and 2.5micron [001] though as AudioCats reports in his post the diaphragm themselves do not!.
The best that Stax can, could do is release a iem electrostat with the 009S diaphragm, and they have not (publicly) toyed with the idea since 2016 at CES. One can, could get "drop in", replacement electrodes for between/about 60 or 70 002s' in Mg/Al alloy, stiff and fairly damped stuff(!) And improve on the stator hole structure-field strength dramatically.
We could easily get the hole size and the material "bridge" below the gap distance, which would be great for signal field control/strength on the diaphragm.
Total 800-1000$ in steel and up to 1.8kk, but probably less in nex-gen Magnesium-Al alloy with enough pieces for 60 or so 002/003mkii. I love that the cables are designed to be detachable ("slip on, slip off") on the Electrostatic iems.
Just (very simply/elegantly) attach with Weldwood contact cement and a small/fine nail polish brush. I have already done it, good as new. Very easy and took all of two and a half minutes to open them up, prepare the materials, and do that...
...At the most have just one, do not even need two- phenolic/plastic "rings" cut like Stax already has in the 001 and 002/003mkii to possibly account for the thinner stator material in the "shell" housing.
Stax does all the work, I suggest easily and cheaply potentially capitalizing on it with superior electrode drop ins. The cable is designed to come on/slide off easily, so this would be sort of like, only better than taking an HD 800 and modding it with a resonator to be an HD 800S, "only better"... "Electrostatic"
Sorry just interested in your take, wondering if you would like to try doing this with me... I have been thinking about doing so. It's really fairly cheap and relatively easy seeing as you very straightforwardly would get a much improved in the case of the 002/003mkii, Electrostatic driver. It is just too/that straightforward... And 001 for 'instance' sounds much better than the L300 anyway/already (I have an/the L300, it sounds VERY "thick" not lean with a fast transient decay as in the 009S, and also unlike the 001/002 diaphragm. Stax does all the work and the tensioning for us. All that needs to be done is to drop in an electrode upgrade, which would be very simple, cheap, & easy to do in these around 23.5mm sizes).
Nobody has done a professional job of 'diy' electrostat before aside from MrSpeakers. Here it is just too easy to pass up...
AudioCats --as in the electrostatic amp modder- post:..
. no grain of salt in this read; whole post...
Could be straightforward and CHEAP enough fun, and serious electrostatic improvement for many?, I am not sure what you think. I did not want to do approximately two or three sheets, enough pieces for approximately up to 50 or 60. Back to anime !! I am a sucker for nostalgia and Oudou was neat... Shirly lives, but the original script for the C.G. characters was definitely 'untouchable.'
...Open, slip in. Snap back together as normal and you have a "very" new electrostat. It is easy/manageable... Key
Not to sound like a croaking frog, but... Kero, kero, "Electrostatic" C.C or Kallen's or Lelouch&Suzakus' voice in electrostatic
. I am a dork.
..Best of all because the design is the same, the cable is still detachable, use it on the go or from a desktop amp. Leverage all the effort Stax already does for us in 001/002.. Stax charges 420$ for the combo amp or 240-270$ for the as is Stax pair of headphones + whatever's fair (55 or 75$?) For the Quartet(quad) of Magnesium-Aluminium alloy electrodes. It would be a nice bit of fun to do and I do not know why somebody has not already tried it yet. It isn't that costly,
particularly if shared. It is essentially a free idea.
I think the cable head mouths' (flexible pins) would still 'grab' the slightly thinner stator material.
Keep the old diaphragm ring and gap distance of course.
