The Stax Thread III

[Pokemonn]

Yes, Tommy is the really good helpful guy though anyway.

 

[hpeter]

hmm, it's 3 AM in Tokyo now. I can't sleep coz I can't stop listening Stax lol
So Addictive! lol, Stax rules!

...and that ´s just beginning, more troubles ahead
lol

 

[hfhimeka]

Can i connect an external drive through USB ?
Is the Yodobashi Camera store ?

To my memory they were regular cd players lacking the possibility to connect a usb drive. Maybe if you ask them to change as they had a lot of other stuff there.

Yes it is the Yodobashi Camera store. It's a huge electronics retail chain with locations all over Tokyo but I think the Akihabara store has the largest collection of headphones. Tokyo residents might correct me as I only spent a week in Japan..

The Stax on demo at the Akihabara Yodobashi Camera store are all hooked up to Marantz SACD players. They all have USB ports on the front. I used to bring my own usb cable and audition via my phone's songs. They used to have the same equipment on demo in Shinjuku.. but it looks like they stopped doing that there a few years ago.

Also, anyone who's been to the Akihabara Yodobashi--ever notice that the 007s on display for audition is SZ2-1001?

 

[TheGadaffiDuck]

The Stax on demo at the Akihabara Yodobashi Camera store are all hooked up to Marantz SACD players. They all have USB ports on the front. I used to bring my own usb cable and audition via my phone's songs. They used to have the same equipment on demo in Shinjuku.. but it looks like they stopped doing that there a few years ago.

Also, anyone who's been to the Akihabara Yodobashi--ever notice that the 007s on display for audition is SZ2-1001?

I actually have an HD800S that has an SN/#1000, but this is pretty damn close

 

[hfhimeka]

You actually got me thinking and bring up a good point. Anyone ever seen 007MK2 with SZ2-0xxx or SZ3-0xxx? I googled around and it seems like everything that shows up is always >1000.

 

[justin w.]

STAX starts their serial #s at 1000

 

[Pokemonn]

What lol, what hifi gave oppo sonica dac 3stars....I noticed it today lolz.
weird its sound good with stax setup. weird weird....lol
edit. no Sonica dac is clearly smoother than 5-star mojo. weird...
edit2. no sonica is a tad too bright for my preference...sad...lol
edit3 now I want to try Accuphase DP950/DC950 combo...
edit4 i found SPDIF input doent sound bright at all. wow input diffrence is real.omg...

 

[musicday]

Are there any high quality aftermarket leather earpads that will fit 009 without any modifications, like ZMF ones?

 

[Leporello]

What lol, what hifi gave oppo sonica dac 3stars....I noticed it today lolz.
weird its sound good with stax setup. weird weird....lol
edit. no Sonica dac is clearly smoother than 5-star mojo. weird...

What is genuinely funny is that in all probability the Sonica does not sound any different from a myriad of perfectly competent dacs on the market.

 

[Pokemonn]

What is genuinely funny is that in all probability the Sonica does not sound any different from a myriad of perfectly competent dacs on the market.

if you want to hear differences of Dacs, id recommend to hook up to loudspeaker setups with CD players. it's more apparent with speakers...

 

[ToroFiestaSol]

General advice: read What-Hifi reviews backwards

 

[hpeter]

many hifi magazines are more about tech-fashion than HONEST truth.

this is about pc games, but you get the idea.... :

 

[xantus]

oh stax-fi-er's, I call for your help!

today a terrible thing happened. I was listening to my SRM-1/mk2 = SR-404 ..and suddenly a smooth volume drop over a few seconds happened... now the sound is dirty and farty bass with weak volume in both channels...the drop is pretty significant, 2'oclock is the new 11'oclock on the knob .
ive narrowed it down to the phones or amp (as the sound is crap now on both my digital and analog rigs) , but i dont have other stax phones/amp to test... which one do you think is the culprit? this rig is about 12 years old now..

 

[JimL11]

oh stax-fi-er's, I call for your help!

today a terrible thing happened. I was listening to my SRM-1/mk2 = SR-404 ..and suddenly a smooth volume drop over a few seconds happened... now the sound is dirty and farty bass with weak volume in both channels... ive narrowed it down to the phones or amp (as the sound is crap now on both my digital and analog rigs) , but i dont have other stax phones/amp to test... which one do you think is the culprit? this rig is about 12 years old now..

I would check the amp first, and particularly the power supply, which is shared by both channels. Your amp is over 20 years old, if the electrolytic power supply caps have never been replaced, they could have gone bad.

 

[kevin gilmore]

if its in both channels, it has to be a power supply issue. possibly the bias supply, although failures there are really rare.