[Canman]

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Originally Posted by jpelg We are gonna have to organize a road trip from NY down to DC at some point.

Only if you pick me up on the way.

 

[thrice]

Ok so here are the pics I took, not many and most of this gear has been represented in other pics...but what the heck...

A partial guts shot of the balanced M^3. The power supplies are underneath the amp boards, but I won't say what the are just yet

At the meet

The CD player is a Wadia 23, I think they were in production in the late 90s or so. It uses the Pioneer Stable Platter transport that is used in the Pioneer Elite series of CD players from the late 90s as well as in the Wadia 301 (which is a great player as well!)

Sigh, the Orpheus sounds brilliant no matter what you hook it up to. I love going to Hirsch's house since there is a great mix of high end and budget gear there. You really get to mix and match and as this photo shows, sometimes you get some interesting combos. The Stax Lambda pros sounded great out of this setup as well. There was a comparison with the Lambda pros and a few of the current Stax models (Omega II, and a few others whose model numbers I've forgotten). The consensus seemed to be that the Lambda pros are pretty darn good and in the case of the lower Stax headphone model we listened to, the Lambda outperformed it.

I balanced my W100s. Hirsch said it best when he told me once you go balanced it's hard to go back.

Of course nothing holds a tube to the SDS-XLR.

 

[dannyandelyse]

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Originally Posted by dannyandelyse Jahn, The best line I heard all week! You had the damn thing for 2 weeks and you were not sure if it was on or off. Chill out...stay away from the phones for a few days. You need to go cold turkey. Dan

James...

On or Off?

 

[Jahn]

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Originally Posted by dannyandelyse James... On or Off?

Um, with the button not pushed in. Was that on or off? I'm not joking!

 

[dannyandelyse]

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Originally Posted by Jahn Um, with the button not pushed in. Was that on or off? I'm not joking!

Very confusing...ON or OFF
Button IN or OUT
Light ON or OFF
GOOD or NO GOOD
poor James, two weeks he had the damn ED1 !
very, very confused
Dan

 

[Jahn]

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Originally Posted by dannyandelyse Very confusing...ON or OFF Button IN or OUT Light ON or OFF GOOD or NO GOOD poor James, two weeks he had the damn ED1 ! very, very confused Dan

uh, button out, light...off? was GOOD!

button in, light on ... BAD!

power button out, power light off - didn't hear anything!

 

[tyrion]

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Originally Posted by thrice

Just when I thought I could get through a meet thread without a pic of stevieo, this shows up.

 

[mikeg]

Cute, Mike, very cute.

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Originally Posted by tyrion Just when I thought I could get through a meet thread without a pic of stevieo, this shows up.

 

[Hirsch]

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Originally Posted by tyrion Just when I thought I could get through a meet thread without a pic of stevieo, this shows up.

Thrice is braver than I. I didn't want to risk damaging my camera by taking one.

 

[mikeg]

I'm intrigued by the good performance obtained by connecting the HE90 to an SRD-7. But, there seem to be two kinds of SRD-7. The Stax SRD-7/Mk2 was first produced in 1985, while the SRD-7 was first produced in 1971. So, what's the difference between these two units, and will they drive an HE90, and Omega 2 equally well?

 

[Salt Peanuts]

SRD-7 comes with two normal bias jacks. SRD-7/MK2 comes with one normal bias jack and one pro bias jacks. SRD-7Pro comes with two pro bias jacks. You want either SRD-7/MK2 or SRD-7Pro.

 

[Salt Peanuts]

Double post.

 

[mikeg]

Thanks for your quick response. Can I assume that the O2, and the HE90 (Stax->Sennheiser adapter) are connected to a pro bias jack?

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Originally Posted by Salt Peanuts SRD-7 comes with two normal bias jacks. SRD-7/MK2 comes with one normal bias jack and one pro bias jacks. SRD-7Pro comes with two pro bias jacks. You want either SRD-7/MK2 or SRD-7Pro.

 

[Salt Peanuts]

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Originally Posted by mikeg Thanks for your quick response. Can I assume that the O2, and the HE90 (Stax->Sennheiser adapter) are connected to a pro bias jack?

Yep. The one in this thread appears to be SRD-7Pro from the pic, btw. SRD-7Pro also looks the best, IMO, with black chassis and gold letterings.

 

[Hirsch]

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Originally Posted by mikeg Thanks for your quick response. Can I assume that the O2, and the HE90 (Stax->Sennheiser adapter) are connected to a pro bias jack?

Yep. It's the SRD-7 Professional. Two Pro bias jacks. No electret bias jack, but I don't have any Stax electrets, and am not suffering