The Stax Thread III

[milosz]

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.

 

[chinsettawong]

1. 2

2. 2 hours

3. 100% DIY electrostatic headphones.

 

[AManAnd88Keys]

1. 4-5
2. 90
3. 100%
 
Edit: 100% when it comes to headphones. On weekends I listen to speakers.

 

[DefQon]

4, 2-3 and 30 other 70% is speakers.

 

[Lornecherry]

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).

 

[dude_500]

7, 8-10 hours (if you count passive listening as a 'listening session'), 100% electrostatic!

 

[negura]

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%.

 

[barid]

  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.

 

[realmassy]

If I exclude the hours I spend in the office using headphones only to cover the noise from my colleagues (i wouldn't call that listening):
 
1. 4 days
2. 2 hours
3. 100% STAX

 

[davidsh]

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.

 

[dailydoseofdaly]

5 days a week

A couple albums per session, if you count netflix a lot more head time haha

100% electrostats

 

[karlgerman]

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 

 
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

 

[Lonely_Rider]

  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!

 

[eric65]

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).

 

[shipsupt]

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.