So as I once read a few thousand pages ago, electret-speak is welcomed moreso in here than the "high" end forums, or more appreciated.
After a wait full of anxiety those PWB Stats arrived
with original box and papers from the Alan fellow across the seas in England. 50 days for shipping, and I thought yeah righhhhht I just sent some $ for beer fund and a laugh.
But that's how long it took. Alan is a stand-up guy.
I'll see about scanning the paperwork soon which lists all the specs, a sheet with all the model names and specs as well.
Turns out my hunch was correct these are electrets, mint condition, and they match exactly the other pair I somehow scored that didn't want to drive out of the AT-705 box very well.
Giving them a run-in and wow the timbre and space they have.Incredible. These must be a good representation of the Belt-ism tweaks. Hooked up to a small output Realistic SA-102 but the specs say 5w or higher, so off to look at another amp ( too lazy to recap the tube right now ).
One quick question, the 2 sets of speaker wires out of the back are grey, but each set has a grey wire with a black line.
I opened up the transformer box ( man they are sizeable ) and the wiring has the plain grey wires of each channel leading to a small capacitor (? no typical resistor stripe markings ) just before attaching to the transformer. The black striped grey wires go directly to the transformer ( all wires via a small mounting pcb board ) I have these hooked up as the black striped wires being the negatives. So far other than lower volume output (
which I assume to be the larger sized transformers vs. the AT-705 box's ones ) they are gorgeous sounding. ( cringe at that word but it fits )
-----With this hookup at least they need much more juice than the Audio Technica 705's or the Stax SR5 off this amp. Maybe they are backwards, so before I swap them around:
------Primarily what I need to know: Is there any danger to hooking them up with the black striped wires as the positives, which would shoot them right to the transformer without the capacitor thing .
or should I wait to get these on a better output amp first to see.
It is british wiring, so it may be completely backwards
Already had some great advice from Armaegis, and hoping there was a definitive transformer hookup person in here to say for sure.
One curious note, the inside of the transformer box has the sinks of the transformers set into a layer of what appears to be parrafin wax melted into the entire bottom of the housing as I assume a doping replacement.( another tweak?) Someone prior had put feet on what I take to be the top of the box so it was upside down and I was What'ing the design. These should have that at the bottom otheriwse they will drop out ... not like that's valuable info at all nobody owns these.
Scans and pictures to follow sometime soonish.
Thanks.
Anyone looking to sell off the other PWB models ( working )please let me know.
These are definitely going to get the rainbow foil and creme samples applied.
Oh and Frank Zappa's guitar says hello.