The Stax Thread III
Jan 31, 2014 at 6:26 AM Post #1,381 of 25,535
What?!?.  No posts for 6 days?
 
I'll post something.
 
Quick survey-
 
1. How many days a week do you listen to headphones?
 
2. How many minutes or hours in a typical session?
 
3. What percent of listening is with electrostatic headphones?
 
 
 
My answers:   1. 2    2. 2 hrs   3. 100% for about the last year.  Tried going back to some ortho's and dynamics but that didn't last long, immediately went back to my electrostatics.
 
Jan 31, 2014 at 8:05 AM Post #1,385 of 25,535
1) 5 days a week, about 15 hours per week or 75% of my music listening through electrostatics (rest is in-car or through speakers).
 
Jan 31, 2014 at 9:15 AM Post #1,387 of 25,535
1. How many days a week do you listen to headphones?
 
7
 
2. How many minutes or hours in a typical session?
 
2-3
 
3. What percent of listening is with electrostatic headphones?
 
100%
 
The questions are only related to headphones time, but out of my overall listening time speakers are 40%, headphones 60%.
 
Jan 31, 2014 at 9:57 AM Post #1,388 of 25,535
  What?!?.  No posts for 6 days?
 
I'll post something.
 
Quick survey-
 
1. How many days a week do you listen to headphones?
 
2. How many minutes or hours in a typical session?
 
3. What percent of listening is with electrostatic headphones?
 
 

1. 7 days
2. varies, at least 1 hour, sometimes all day.
3. 25%.  still keep a rotation going.
 
Jan 31, 2014 at 12:04 PM Post #1,390 of 25,535
Well, I don't listen to my T1/Sigma setup at all for the moment, right now I'm using my HE-5le and HE-500 through the emo.
 
Jan 31, 2014 at 1:33 PM Post #1,392 of 25,535
1:     5 days a week
2:     3-4 hours
3:     100% electrostat others are in boxes and stay there for at least the next 3 months 
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By the way, i picked my new KGSS, a used one i bought from someone in this forum.
So this is almost Headphone-heaven for me.
As far i can tell right now, it is very nice but there is a hum after the amp is turned on.
 
Not in the signal, but one could hear it sitting next to the amp.
So it could be the transformer??  It is a european voltage model build by Spritzer, maybe a year old????
 
I´m not into electronics and DYS amps.... but my HIFI-dealer,
which is also a friend of mine (and for all that stuff i bought in his shop, i´m his friend as well)
will help me for sure.
 
Maybe one of the specialists in this forum could be so kind to give me a hint to solve this problem in front of asking my hifi-dealer.
 
Thank´s in advance
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Jan 31, 2014 at 1:56 PM Post #1,393 of 25,535
  What?!?.  No posts for 6 days?
 
I'll post something.
 
Quick survey-
 
1. How many days a week do you listen to headphones?
 
2. How many minutes or hours in a typical session?
 
3. What percent of listening is with electrostatic headphones?
 
 
 
My answers:   1. 2    2. 2 hrs   3. 100% for about the last year.  Tried going back to some ortho's and dynamics but that didn't last long, immediately went back to my electrostatics.

 
1. 7
2. 2 hours
3. 100%. Damn SR-009! Can't resist them!
 
Jan 31, 2014 at 2:22 PM Post #1,394 of 25,535
In my turn, my answers
1 : 4-5
2 : 2 hours
3: 80 % Stax (009) (for the Hi-Fi) ; 20 % HD-600 (for Home Cinema) (NB: I prefer the HD 600 for Home Cinema because I wear glasses and a Stax headphone listening is less comfortable with glasses on the nose ; moreover the perfect sealing of the pads of the 009 becomes problematic with glasses).
 
Jan 31, 2014 at 3:06 PM Post #1,395 of 25,535
1. How many days a week do you listen to headphones? 7

2. How many minutes or hours in a typical session? 5 days a week I commute listening to IEM's, 1 hour each way, so 2 hours per day. I then listen almost every day at work unless I'm in meetings, so let's say 6 hours average per day all electrostatic. I get a few hours in every night on the home rig and some more extended listening on the weekends... all electrostatic. Sorry, long answer! :)

3. What percent of listening is with electrostatic headphones? I'm surprised, my commute time adds up, but I still listen to over 80% stats.
 

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