Stax Omega4 compared to Omega1/Omega2/Omega3 February 2024 Amidst the thousands of conventional stereo recordings that I sampled over the past 15 months via the new Omega4, I discovered to my surprise that many hundreds were closet binaural recordings. By Omega4, I am referring to the...

http://www.suntimes.com/output/movie...ews-dvd24.html Enlightening article on how much effort Lowry Digital put in to clean up Eps 4,5,6 for the DVD release. Essentially, Lucasfilm digitised the old dirt-speckled film negatives into (presumably high definition) digital video, and sent that...

Bought the new DVDs on Tuesday. Watched several scenes from all 3 movies -- the picture quality was simply superb, even when blown up in size on a 43" plasma TV. To get a better picture quality, I'd need to go for High Definition material. Strangely, on my system (Pioneer 43HD + HDMI...

3) Possibly most critically, John Williams' entire score for the film has been flipped in the rear channels, so that what should be the left rear channel is playing from the right rear channel (and vise versa). What this means is that the rear channels don't match the front channels -...

I'm giving in to the dark side on Tuesday. From numerous reviews popping up, one overwhelmingly recurrent comment, with nary a disagreement, seemed to be that the picture quality of these new DVDs are staggeringly good. Other than the links provided by KR, here's another one that also praises...

Way to go Nik. You have been the most adventurous among us and the first to own the newest, bestest and expensivest headphone gear. Congratulations on your purchase of both the 010s. I take the risk here to venture a guess that the 010 (the headphone) and the Linn CD12 form a...

Quote: Originally Posted by yannfr but the bas[s] polluted everthing Omega 2 owners definitely know where you are coming from, although most would probably see it another way: the bass pervades everything. The Omega 2 imbues each sonic image with a low-frequency cushion of...

Yeah, the registry is a minefield for me. Which string, and what value? Grrr...

Thanks guys. Not exactly the tips I was expecting, but hey...life is more exciting when we go down untrodden roads. (Untrodden by me, that is.) So it's a gulp, a deep breath, and new browsers here I come!

I have a related question I hope you guys could help me out with. My desktop resolution is set to 1600 width X 1200 hgt. (I use a 20" LCD screen, whose native rez is 1600X1200.) I like to have my IE window sized at 1000 width X 1200 hgt, positioned dead center of the desktop. When I...

Impressive... most impressive

Quote: Originally Posted by Nik ...But the tests with other headphones like Grado RS-1, PS-1, Senneisher H 650 and others... even the test with the Egmont + Lambda series have not that BIG soundstage ("headstage") 3D as with the Omega II. OK I see. Now I know where you are coming...

Thanks for the write-up, amartignano. I read it with great interest. At the point when Nik obtained the Omega II headphone, he already had the Linn CD12. It may not have been possible for him to isolate (as a controlled experiment) the contributing factor whether the soundstage...

That was a deceptively simple write-up, but we can see that a lot of effort went into careful selection and matching of words. I concur with many of Eric’s observations, specifically: (1)That the HE90 portrays an immensely vivid sense of perspective. The word “perspective” was used a...

Quote: Originally posted by grinch it's sort of shocking at first, but soon you don't even notice. Same here!

Quote: Originally posted by ServinginEcuador It's a proper noun Ron, it should be the Stax Fart. Oh, how could I have made such an error! The Stax Fart it is!

Quote: Originally posted by ServinginEcuador It's called a fart. I just love the way how we come up with very endearing descriptions for various headphone phenomena. The famous Stax fart...

Oh, so this is where the thread went to. Couldn't find it during the period when the search function was disabled. Kevin, thanks for the clarification.

Quote: Originally posted by kevin gilmore What i really need is an 800 volt triode with a 800 volt cathode to fillament spec. Wow, simply wow. I wonder what the voltage swing must be with 8 of those?

My dear sweet God... The Omega II and the glow of those four EL84s in the dark (together in the same pic) is just so romantic. I wonder how awesome it must sound. And the thought of driving the Omega II with Kevin's crazy soon-to-come super-amp (8 nos of 6C33s in a balanced...

I wonder if the name Blue Hawaii had an influence on the choice of chasis color?

Quote: Originally posted by dabeststax IMO only newbies who have never heard of photoshop post images that big on the internet. That's a rather rude thing to say, and Dr Gilmore is a respected person here. If he wants to post big pics, I'll take the trouble to download them.

Some memorable lines in there. "I enjoy arrogance in hi fi..." "The Electrostatic vs. Dynamic argument is about as interesting as Solid State vs. Tubes, which is to say, not at all." "...are not fast, since "fast" infers sped-up sound, exaggerated microdynamics, or trickery. Rather...

Quote: Originally posted by kevin gilmore quote But really they are the same thing. The sound of this amp is absolutely unique for a bunch of reasons. Just because i can figure out why it sounds like it does with electrical measurements does not take away from the liberal arts and...

Want to hear: smokey's weebl Nik's Egmont Ref Nik's CD12 R10 and yeah... Omega III plus flagship digital components from dCS Wadia Audio Note Goldmund Spectral Cary Have already heard (via T2+OmegaII) flagship digital components players from Krell Jadis Mark Levinson...