Hi all, up for sale is a brand new in box pair of Stax SR-007A headphones, sealed and unopened. Picked these up to keep as part of the collection when news came out Stax was discontinuing the model but have now decided to pass it on. Pleasant warm-neutral tuning while retaining the detail and...

"2nd Generation Carbon Nanotube Electrostatic Driver" - from what I can see, my guess is no substantial changes, just iterating on build quality of the original CRBN driver? Stators and their hole patterns look identical, suggests to me transducer parameters went untouched. New separate layers...

Day 3 - Andromeda in a Solaris form factor shell?

With some HFers liking the results from modding the felt discs, it would have been nice to see hotswappable damping, perhaps with a set of different exchangeable discs included. Like some of Dan Clark's stuff, or those IEMs with swappable filters.

https://drop.com/buy/drop-grell-oae1-headphones Regular production version following up on the Signature edition as alluded to seems like.

Plenty of pad modding done on other Stax and no reports of subsequent driver issues, at least that I've seen, most likely you'll be fine. But if any of the pads you use result in increase in "Stax fart", the crinkling you've heard, those I'd suggest avoiding. Stands to reason whatever associated...

Literally the "golden age" of AKG :)

Ah ok, I see the updated pic, more pro-looking yeah, and with the black grills it looks like you're able to see the drivers more clearly which is nice. With the pair I posted, the box did suggest to me it may be a special one-off from AKG. Hi Heinz, cool bit of info, thanks! Looking around, I...

Seems like the pic didn't attach properly but I'm guessing it's this pair you're referring to? Wonder what the story is behind this one.

Indeed, no creaking with the fancy headband.

Glad to be of assistance :beerchug: I grew up with a pair of Grado SR60 gifted to me by an uncle which I've held onto through countless gear swaps, it's a special thing to have a sentimental connection to the hobby. Best of luck tracking down a copy of those Fishers 🙏

Hey Eyal, had a shot at this by cropping out everything except the headphones and doing a reverse image search. Since the shape of the badge on the slider looks quite distinctive I thought there was a good chance it'd yield a result. And happily it did lead to a couple hits on ebay for the...

^ And Sennheiser HD6XX is down to $169 again, equals ATL if I'm not mistaken: https://drop.com/buy/massdrop-sennheiser-hd6xx

Noise from the unit and not the heaphone outs correct?

Interesting, I wonder how well the measured difference translates to what a human ear would hear. But obviously the damping does make a difference so likely then for Stax to have made other tweaks, perhaps to the drivers themselves, beyond removing the wool in later Lambda Pros. Good stuff...

Intuitively I suppose you'd expect the damping to make some sort of difference but it does seem like estat drivers are insensitive to it. The original Lambda Pro also has that wool in the cups and it sounds no different than later iterations which don't have the material, and all of them have...

Perfect! Thanks for the smooth straightforward deal, would be happy to trade again. Happy listening!

Thanks for your coverage as always :L3000: Wonder what it'd take to pull something like this off in NA...

Throwback to this classic HFM moment:

Probably varies based on use and environmental factors, and each specific unit, but for me the X9000 was over the course of a week and L700MK2 a couple months.

This sounds familiar to me as well, comes and goes but eventually the squealing wouldn't abate then drivers develop channel imbalance. Keep an ear out and don't hesitate on return or warranty service should your situation calls for it. :pray:

Symptom sounds familiar to me, preceded channel imbalance I encountered on the two models I mentioned a few posts back. You'll probably want to get it sorted by your dealer before long no matter what.

I knew I could count on HF to stay on top of stock remaining, I've seen my share of FOMO and flavour of the month posting :sweat_smile: