Cyanoacrylate it is, then.

  After a decade of listening, the 303 has cracked at the fork. At the high torque point, the corner. Stax has an equally food-like name for them: cup holders. Granted, Stax is priced high end, but the replacement parts just seem a bit on the high side for me, particularly for a piece of...

  What's a euphoric coloration? Is that a visual metaphor taken too literally?   Y'know, unless I blinked and missed a reply along this line: Tape deterioration is another variable. Except for maybe 457 masters, many analog tape formulations have a nasty habit of slow partial self...

Ok, so I almost worked up the, er, nerve, to take the 404s apart to find the elusive hair/dust...and they are now silent, so I will enjoy them unaltered. I suspect this is one of those "tradeoffs" that are part of the "performance" toy experience...ya get a sports car, ya don't get an auto...

Stax 4040 Airto Carrot apple beet ginger juice...

How does one remove the ear pads of the Stax 303/404 to have a close look inside---do they velcro off ala Sennheiser 600s? I would prefer that ripping sound to be velcro rather than glue! I'm guessing that there is a small piece of dust/hair, as they lived in a very, well, hairy, environ with...

The Yamaha F1 internal CDR with included Nero 5.5 for burning and Neromix for ripping has been flawless for me, running w2k. Has a QR mode for lower intrinsic jitter/noise, good only for less than 60 minute or so CDs. For "data" blank CDRs I prefer TDK, for "audio" blank CDRs, I prefer JVC...

Aha, this thread also: http://www5.head-fi.org/forums/showt...threadid=39888 Will do a careful look for any stray hairs and post back if found.

Hey, I have a set of 404s that also does the squeak (kinda sounds like a funny little alien drawing a bow across a string?) right channel only. Narrowed it down to the 404s themselves, by swapping 303s and them between 313 and 006t driver amps, ie the 404 squeaks with either driver amp, and...

Hey all: Out of lurk here...looking for impressions on dynamic HPs that are comfortable for couching to video, and lying down to tunes. Ultimate fi is less relevant here (I have Staxes for that), but need deeeep bass and minimum physical fatigue. Senn 600s are a bit too vice like, even with...

Have the Shuttle 51 mini case/mobo/supply with a quasi heatpipe, which was relatively quiet, minimal whine, just a little vibration...not as whisper quiet as claimed, but PFG...all was well till I added a Matrox Parhelia triple head video card which has the usual irritating whiiiiine fan...

Just a bit (puntime) of the mojo is missing. Not good for dance/tribal music. Ok for space/trance music. Great for spoken voice. In general, when the bitrate is sufficient to preclude obvious high frequency artifacts, what I have felt/heard with lossy coding schemes is less of a sense of...

What keeps me from voting for the w1000 is the stupid IMHO "script" font saying "Soverign" on them. So, the Stax Omega2 it is.

By directly from, do you mean the music source being the PC/MAC, or do you mean headphones plugged into the computer? There is the somewhat overboard soultion: toslink SPDIF out from the PC => Genesis Digital Lens => outboard DAC => headphones. It is not a trivial engineering exercise to...

I would suggest keeping it simple for starters: a two way system with good drivers. There is a basic version of the Ariel with a single part crossover...one cap for the tweeter, and that's it, which can be upgraded as desired. Also look into series crossovers...a bit tweakier, but with...