ericj
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Stax are less flimsy than they look and feel, but it's still a good idea to be careful with them strictly because they're expensive. they use very high quality plastic and they're less fragile than they look like they are (for example, broken grilles on the lambdas are almost unheardof) - but abuse them and your wallet will feel it when you repair them.
Dunno where you're getting rattly, but the creak is best solved with an application of finely ground talc powder to the creaky bits. I actually recommend visiting a bowling pro shop and buying the tiny baggie of Brunswick Power Slide or similar (Ebonite and other brands have similar products - your local pro shop may not have PowerSlide but they'll have the same stuff in a different package, guaranteed) -- this is an ultra-fine talc that is designed to make one's bowling shoe extra slippery. What you get is a little cloth bag full of the stuff which is tucked inside a ziplock baggie. Will cost in the neighborhood of $3-5. Apply a small amount of this to whatever is creaking or squeaking.
You can buy it online for $3 shipped here: http://www.bowlingball.com/brunswick...accessory.html
This grade of talc powder is so slippery that most bowling leagues have banned it's use, strictly because one guy who puts it on his shoes will leave enough of the stuff on the approach to the lane that other bowlers will slip and fall when they step in the same spot. (at least, when bowling on modern synthetic lanes - which are like hardwood laminate floors, except the layer of urethane and aluminum oxide on the surface is about 10 times as thick and five times as smooth as you'd get in a residential flooring product. It's like walking on glass.)
| Originally Posted by alanbeeb /img/forum/go_quote.gif Which currently available Cans have the best build quality? I.E. which are the least flimsy, most solidly constructed, most feel like if you dropped them they wouldn't break, do not creak or rattle in any way when in use? And feel like quality pieces of kit i.e. solid, nice materials? I find Stax headsets very rattly and creak a lot when one moves, Audio technica also feel a bit flimsy to me. |
Stax are less flimsy than they look and feel, but it's still a good idea to be careful with them strictly because they're expensive. they use very high quality plastic and they're less fragile than they look like they are (for example, broken grilles on the lambdas are almost unheardof) - but abuse them and your wallet will feel it when you repair them.
Dunno where you're getting rattly, but the creak is best solved with an application of finely ground talc powder to the creaky bits. I actually recommend visiting a bowling pro shop and buying the tiny baggie of Brunswick Power Slide or similar (Ebonite and other brands have similar products - your local pro shop may not have PowerSlide but they'll have the same stuff in a different package, guaranteed) -- this is an ultra-fine talc that is designed to make one's bowling shoe extra slippery. What you get is a little cloth bag full of the stuff which is tucked inside a ziplock baggie. Will cost in the neighborhood of $3-5. Apply a small amount of this to whatever is creaking or squeaking.
You can buy it online for $3 shipped here: http://www.bowlingball.com/brunswick...accessory.html
This grade of talc powder is so slippery that most bowling leagues have banned it's use, strictly because one guy who puts it on his shoes will leave enough of the stuff on the approach to the lane that other bowlers will slip and fall when they step in the same spot. (at least, when bowling on modern synthetic lanes - which are like hardwood laminate floors, except the layer of urethane and aluminum oxide on the surface is about 10 times as thick and five times as smooth as you'd get in a residential flooring product. It's like walking on glass.)
