And the C/S (Cheese-to-Signal ratio) is quite high here!:baby::trophy: ... btw "Käse" is German and means BS.

Ah, I understand, thanks for the clarification.

What bright and less bright editions are you talking about? What did I miss? Are there different versions with different tonalities on the market? (Serial numbers?) I have to admit that I didn't follow this thread for longer time until yesterday (so excuse my cluelessness). I have one of those...

Yeah, maybe you're right :wink:. I should not have got too much into details. Too much explanations :wink: :sunglasses::metal:. I just read into the thread today and was really confused on what was going on here. I am sure that Nomax is really an honest guy(!), this I wanted to express as some...

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Hello everyone, I can't understand all the hostility towards NOMAX either. OK, this is a typical and well known phenomenon of internet forums, where people are often not as polite to other people as they should be. These people would never dare to address others if they were face to face with...

Sorry, but this imho is nonsense and only your very personal view. Not mine at all. For me, the X9k is the most "musical" of all headphones that I own*, besides the Bravura (*these are several TOTL dynamic headphones, and on the E-stat side the Warwick Model One, the Bravura and six different...

I agree that normally (if limited power is taken out of the equation) it is not possible by pure amp selection to turn a headphone into one with a very different character. The difference between transducers is very dominant (imho). And I can only repeat (also repeat) again that I interpret all...

No, I would not say that HE-1 and Aperio are including an EQ. For Bravura, that could be the case because there is no means to circumvent the internal DAC with its Sonoma-DSP. But the Aperio can also be fed by an analog input signal, hence the user may deploy his own independent external DAC (by...

And all three guys, i.e., 'Golden Sound', 'DMS', and 'Resolve' ranked 'Sennheiser HE-1' and 'Warwick Aperio' being the absolute Top (mostly "S+"). And all three guys ranked 'Susvara' and 'Bravura' as "S". And interestingly all three ranked 'Shangri La Sr' as "A", only, even when matched with...

Hi gammi, this is indeed interesting to read: "That <40Hz drop-off? You can actually get it back counterintuitively by breaking the seal. If you lift the bottom of the X9000 off your head ever so slightly you'll hear a bass lift." Exactly the same was mentioned by Michael in the comments...

Btw, here I just found two former reviews of Michael on Susvara with Bakoon: and

We now got an answer on the amplifier setups being compared for Michael's YT review of 'Director's Garage': X9000 chain: dCS LINA DAC => Mjolnir KGSSHV Carbon CC => Stax SR-X9000 Susvara chain: dCS LINA DAC => Bakoon 13r => Hifiman Susvara To quote from the comments section of Michael’s...

Another brand new review (this has been released today) by Director's Garage (Stax x9000/Mjolnir Carbon CC/dCS LINA DAC).

Indeed very true! I love them all ... Most Stax headphones are real individuals and do not resemble the others of the Stax family. None is perfect, but all are very special (and at a more or less high quality level) and complement each other. And this variety makes it so much fun to swap between...

Padam, my pseudo statement "You must have had a defective device :wink:" was meant ironically, so not at all with "bitter seriousness", because that is my personal way of taking things with a grain of salt, the hifi hobby should not be turned into a serious question of faith. It is a hobby, no...

I cannot follow this verdict at all. You must have had a defective device. :wink: Carbon/X9k sounds absolutely glorious for me and it is one of the best that I have heard (I have not yet heard the HE-1 and SGL Sr, Aperio, unfortunately). And I have compared it to a lot of other Stax headphones...

Yes, let's keep this in mind :):thumbsup: Maybe next year :) I've also some other electrostatic amps (even one with tubes ... :innocent::stuck_out_tongue_winking_eye: and further Stax headphones which can be perfectly mismatched :ksc75smile: with these ...

100% agree! :thumbsup: And what's more: I even say that of all the amplifiers till 2050, Carbon fits the X9k best of all time :stuck_out_tongue_winking_eye: Of course, I wanted to be provocative here, so please take it with a grain of salt. My statement is therefore the following: With this...

Hi, and sorry, but I cannot agree with the considerations on the X9k Carbon combo. For my taste the Mjölnir Carbon is not only a brillant estat amplifier in general, for my ears and taste it is also a perfect match for the X9k. And I also cannot follow the wonky (??) impressions on the X9k...

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Agree with many of your statements, however could not yet get that wonky feeling concerning the spatial presentation. I had read about this at the other forum and had tried to locate it myself but could not yet find it. But maybe it's only me or the genres and tracks of music I tried. For me...

Yes, this was also my state of knowledge, here, before. This was the reason why I was wondering what @hifixman meant by: "Yes they do share abundant similarities and I dare to say after enabling DAC bypass on Bravura, they could be even closer. "? Maybe there was a certain hack or DIY trick by...

Hi and thanks a lot for your reply! This was helpful information for me. Regarding the old Lambda Signature from 1987, yes, I agree with you. I also did not want to say that the Lambda Signature can anyhow compete with the resolution of an X9000 or this kind of state-of-the-art headphones. But...

Hi, I very much agree with your approach to listening to headphones. I love different top headphones for their strengths and special "personality" and also despite their weaknesses. I think where there is light, there must also be accepted shadow. Some sound characteristics are mutually...