Yup. Kinda out of the hobby right now, enjoying music with my HD800 as my only headphone and still making SDRs for whoever asks :beerchug:

Considering how Hi End stuff prices are currently rocketting, I'm afraid Sennheiser would ask a lot of money for that.

@babyoh : if you're in EU, I suggest you to contact Inexxon.de . Or maybe Mjolnir audio if you're outside EU. Both are reputable and aknowledged guyz.

nope. Not normal. Mine is dead silent. The best would be to test the headphone from a Stax amp to see if the issue is due to the amplifier or your headphone itself.

Congrats @Ali-Pacha . There's a peak around 10khz. Once fixed by EQ, all the harshness we can feel sometimes is gone. Surely bass is on the light side but it's more a matter of impact than a real lack of bass in my humble opinion. I even listen to some EDM with my own HE60 and it's fine. But...

HE60 and HE90 plugs are different indeed. - the Baby Orpheus is much lighter that the HD6.. series and clamps less. Consequently it disappears much more once on your head. - Different beast compared to 009 and ESP950. the HE60 sounds a tad more romantic than the Stax with less forward much...

Actually the only option is to put a Stax cable and the added resistor. I think there're very few aftermarket Stax compatible plugs and they're bad from what I remember . So the only valuable mod is to solder a whole Stax cable and add the resistor in the cup. that's what Inexxon.de made for...

I ran my own HE60 from a SRM-T1 (I had a DIY adaptator HE60 to Stax plug) and the result was decent to my ears. Surely it's not up to BHSE/HE60 level but still decent. modding the HE60 implies to put a resistor in the cable and a stax plug. in my opinion it's easier to use an adaptator...

Set RME's volume to whatever works fine with your amp. I have mine on -15db (auto Ref Level ON ) when I use my external amplifier.

If anyone want a used EML 5U4G , shoot me a PM . I don't know how many hours of use but the seller and the first owner told me it was kinda low ( <100Hours). ;)

yea. Definitely "tunable" by Tube rolling indeed.

I'm usually kinda reluctant to over-emphasize the merits of so called "upgrades" which are too often mere overpriced placebos in my opinion but in that case, i definitely think the gap is quite significant. Significant enough to cure definitely my upgraditis once for all. The only move I'd...

Definitely agree but considering the upgrades make the Stratus leading toward more neutrality and reference sound i see how some people could be disappointed to loose a good chunck of tube bloominess. In my humble opinion. I'm personally extremely happy with this upgrade honestly.

ok. I do think upgrades make a pretty significant difference and I don't think the last iteration of the Stratus sounds so bloomy anymore.

@JimL11 and what about SRX+ vs modded SRM-T1 ?