For your needs I think the SRS-005 system would be more appropriate. It comes with the SR-003 which is the full sized 5 pin Stax plug version of the 002, and SRM-252s which is not battery powered but is very small and uses a wall wart for power which should be manageable for a bedside amp. The...

I think the safest bet is just to buy new and avoid the used market all together for the 007. Too many bad years and no definitive way to know what revision you're getting into.

Well I don't disagree about trying to make the 009 or 007 portable, but I don't see any reason why a purpose built portable electrostatic headphone setup wouldn't be desirable. The SR-002 is a phenomenal IEM and at the price offers unparalleled performance, so it follows that an electrostatic...

I think Stax should look into developing a set of portable on ear earspeakers that are compatible with the existing SRM-002 amp and priced similarly to that system. I built an adapter to use full size Stax earspeakers on the SRM-002 a while back and it drove the SR-X Mk3 very well, so I don't...

The srs-002 system is remarkably good if the eartip design agrees with your anatomy. It's not a 009 but it is still phenomenal as a portable electrostatic setup.

Shifting gears here, has anyone been updated on PriceJapan orders lately? I'm gearing up to buy an Omega 2 and I'm hoping to go through them if they're back up and running.

Cool man, I've only been working with Stax headphones for 3 years, but in that time I have repaired and restored several vintage sets of headphones, modified a couple of amplifiers, converted several SRD boxes to Pro bias with custom built bias circuits, added normal bias to an SRM-727 and am...

I do contribute on a regular basis and I give accurate and concise answers. What I don't do is spout off incomprehensible posts about things that I don't understand. I am here both to learn and to be informative where I can. Posts like yours show that you either do not know, or are incapable of...

Maybe you should leave unsolicited explanations of headphone driver technologies to someone who actually knows something about it.

Technically the drivers are not angled, the pads are the part that is angled and yes both sides are angled.

Koss makes what is probably the second most common electrostat in the form of the ESP950. This market is a really small niche within a niche. It probably doesn't make marketing sense for anyone else to really try to compete in the e-stat headphone game. That's probably why the only other major...

I seriously doubt it. Jason has consistently referred to the "Manhattan Project" as Mike's thing whereas the Jotunheim seems to be almost exclusively Jason's design.

So basically you are saying that any product Schiit or any dac/amp company makes is obsolete/irrelevant today? That's a pretty bleak outlook. Fortunately I suspect very few will agree with your opinion. This is a niche industry that lives for overkill and cares little about practicality. 

Was it an SRD-6sb? If so then what you described could definitely happen depending on how loud you normally listen. Self biasing adapters require the voltage of the music being played to peak over a certain threshold to generate the full bias voltage, and it needs to happen often enough to keep...

I personally don't buy into the concept of burn in simply for the question that if the mechanical behavior of the materials used can drift significantly enough to hear a difference over a short term "burn in" period then how is it that they don't continue to drift at a similar rate until...