If only it were true that all or even most mixing is done on flat equipment, or to some standard.  Granted I'm not in the industry, but I have read widely on the topic and there are few, if any, standards even where there should be.  I re-visited this thread after a few month's absence.  In the...

Welcome to Help the Ijit, where experienced people give help to (or wickedly mislead) the clueless newcomer!   I am experimenting with using a MiniDSP "2x4" as a headphone processor (cross feed, delay, EQ, etc.)  I have found an "off label" use of it -- I have found that, with a Y-connector...

Hi folks, the Soldermizing itch has started again...I am in possession of a Stax SRM-1/Mk 2 "energizer" that, apparently, is in perfect working condition. Still, that is no reason not to screw with it! Elsewhere here, I found guides to such things as re-biasing the unit (mine is a tad off), and...

Great thread! Almost as long in the reading as in its writing. Some thoughts pop to mind: Argyris said on the 6-14 (page 39) entry: "Now somebody just needs to design a headphone amp with a built-in, high quality programmable parametric EQ that can be set by hooking it up to a computer and...

Kind of late adding to this thread, but I recently tried what the OP did. The results were appalling.  The main problem is that you would need to EQ with the headphones worn normally.   The ECM8000 (MIC) won't fit in my ear (yes I tried that too.)   Even if an objectively flat EQ were obtained...

Hi.  I am a new Stax owner.  I am cleaning up the (initally working) "energizer" (amp) and have a question.  I am a long time DeoxIT fan, and aware that it should not be used on certain things.  This unit has an ALPS pot that I think may be one of the carbon types, thus one should use the Fader...

Hello all,  I am fairly new here.   I am the recent purchaser of three well used pairs of Stax from Ebay and am still playing with them!   I will probably keep the Lambda + Lambda Pro as they are "best".   My speakers have had very little use in the past month. Thanks to PiccoloNamek for his...

Interesting tutorial.  I am still very new at this (headphone EQ-ing).  I found an outside link that has a lot of information -- very eclectic.  Assuming it's true (always a risky proposition on the Net), the interesting point is that even experts disagree over such things as loudness curves and...

Hmmm...interesting.  For one of my el-cheapo purchases (just a usb dac), this one uses the C-Media 6206; according to c-media site, it dos support 44.1 & 48.  No info on whether it resamples internally.   Based on my limited reading of USB protocol, it is the DAC that tells Windows what speeds...

I want to get real 44.1 Khz output to a USB DAC in XP.  I don't want any resampling at all.  I am fine with 44.1 KHZ, 16 bit output.  I would like to try one of the tube based (and cheap) DAC & headphone amps sold on Ebay and such.   I have had extensive . .. and mostly unsuccessful, experience...