HI Philimon, The outer part of the cups come off by rotating them. See this post by MDR30: https://www.head-fi.org/threads/the-new-sansui-ss-100-thread.293113/post-11670363 and this photo of the innards by Tinkerer to help you guage ...

Hi thanks for your impressions, do you have any direct comparisons against other Stax please?

Looking forward to attend :). any other vintage planar heads going hit me up.

So, this post by @MousoMachineGun here https://www.head-fi.org/threads/stax-sr-x1-new-entry-model.971680/post-18022421 suggests the SR-X1 has decent sub-bass, moreso than many other Stax, whereare your opinion was it was bass-light. Is your evaluation based on bass levels relative to other...

Really smooth and easy purchase from bebop7, good comms and posted very quickly. Would gladly deal with again.

Wow thanks! So this looks realllyy like a SR-5N successor to me , with the more open style SR-X baffles. Where are you guys getting the photos and listening impressions from? is there a Japanese website out there with people posting? thanks

TBH, looking at the side-by-side photo with SR-Xmk3, the SR-X1 driver doesnt look much bigger. It is also curious whether the SR-X1 has supra-aural or circumaural earpads...none of the photos seem to show. Here is a translated version of the Japanese leaflet:

Hi all, I'm looking for a Stax SRM-X pro (the small bronze colour amp with PB and NB sockets), if anyone has one they wouldn't mind selling, please DM me :). thank you

Great guy, very generous and shipped out super fast! thanks

Good communication, posted quickly and works well. Thank you

DM sent :)

This is very big news for this thread; the first time a really major mainstream company is producing planars in volume. Something which was of interest in this thread a decade ago. Fingers crossed it leads onto better things in terms of mainstream planars. In related news, i suppose the Yamaha...

Where can we see the floor plan? thank you

Are any of the vendors planning on demoing electrostatic headphones (Stax or others)?

Hi all, I am looking for a Beyerdynamic DT-990 pro that may have stopped working. I do not mind if the drivers do not work. Frame should be in good condition. Post to me in England UK. Thank you.