The Stax Thread III

[Tinkerer]

Anybody will tell you that the real fight after you have gear of a certain quality is finding decently mastered stuff. The music recordings themselves will be the weak link. That said, I just listened to at regular volume, admittedly not the best source, and I didn't hear anything obvious.

You made sure you're not getting noise off your motherboard or something? I have to use optical or my monitor's powered USB hub to keep left channel buzz from my motherboard out of the rest of my stuff. The USB power rails are just kinda noisy.

 

[powertoold]

Anybody will tell you that the real fight after you have gear of a certain quality is finding decently mastered stuff. The music recordings themselves will be the weak link. That said, I just listened to at regular volume, admittedly not the best source, and I didn't hear anything obvious.

You made sure you're not getting noise off your motherboard or something? I have to use optical or my monitor's powered USB hub to keep left channel buzz from my motherboard out of the rest of my stuff. The USB power rails are just kinda noisy.

Yup, I also hear the distortion in the first 5 seconds of that video. You need to crank it up fairly loud, not "live" volume loud though.

I don't think it's noise off motherboard or anything, since it's mostly right channel, plus it's my phone feeding USB into a balanced XLR DAC.

 

[Whitigir]

Why does silver sound so good with Stax 0_0 !!

Anybody will tell you that the real fight after you have gear of a certain quality is finding decently mastered stuff. The music recordings themselves will be the weak link. That said, I just listened to at regular volume, admittedly not the best source, and I didn't hear anything obvious.

You made sure you're not getting noise off your motherboard or something? I have to use optical or my monitor's powered USB hub to keep left channel buzz from my motherboard out of the rest of my stuff. The USB power rails are just kinda noisy.

Ok, no distortions in that video of first 5 seconds. Running IpadPro+typical camera kit, regular usb Cables into lks ma004 and T2.

First 5 seconds what I hear is the bass notes and the ver faint reverbs of trebles that is mimicking the bass notes on the right channels. Kinda like a Handrum is the bass being recorded in a bathroom that Has this very fine and high reverb, but it is being composed in onto the right channel. I hope I make that clear, and this reverbs keep trailing this very bass throughout the song.

My bet is that your system is incapable of retrieving this frequency

Love it by the way. I love my stax system with many modern music

 

[powertoold]

Ok, no distortions in that video of first 5 seconds. Running IpadPro+typical camera kit, regular usb Cables into lks ma004 and T2.

First 5 seconds what I hear is the bass notes and the ver faint reverbs of trebles that is mimicking the bass notes on the right channels. Kinda like a Handrum is the bass being recorded in a bathroom that Has this very fine and high reverb, but it is being composed in onto the right channel. I hope I make that clear, and this reverbs keep trailing this very bass throughout the song.

My bet is that your system is incapable of retrieving this frequency

Love it by the way. I love my stax system with many modern music

Hmm, so you near no grainy fuzz distortion at all on the right channel even at high volume?

 

[mulveling]

@Whitigir I love the silver cables too. AQ Wild Blue Yonder works great with BHSE; still won't help it catch your T2 though!!

 

[336881]

I been saying for a hot minute bread-boy's work is dog in comparison to the wonderful talent in the community.
I still appreciate everything bread-boy does, though.

You have been saying it for a year or two. Free speech and all that but it is not helping anyone. Only really hurting bread boy owners. I have peeked inside of a few stax amps and too many to count dynamic headphone amps. Just me but you make it sound ten times worse than it is.

 

[paradoxper]

We can disagree here. I can't help your interpretation.

We are talking about better alternatives; specifically if one aims for a T2/BHSE/exotic build.

We aren't talking about the garbage that is Cavalli or Eddie Current.

Don't look so much into the cheek.

 

[mulveling]

Paradoxper is right. Bread boy is treated like a god by some, but KG is the real genius behind these circuits. And from what I’ve heard (a lot) you can get better sound for less money from other builders. Absolutely no sense of aesthetic, either. He is a known (Very good) quality though, and quite prolific, I’ll give him that. His products are very reliable.

I respect Justin of Headamp a LOT more, though.

 

[SeaWo|f]

I wish there were more ways to support KG and Spritzer for the work that they put into these things.

Unfortunately it appears that the fallout of chinese rip offs and other unscrupulous practices by individuals means that future designs will stay behind closed doors and not released to the community.

 

[mulveling]

It’s mostly bread boy who seems to get pissy about that stuff

 

[SeaWo|f]

It's funny I've been active here for some time and have back read a lot, and some how I have missed that name " bread boy". But I never looked for builders. I knew who I wanted an amp from and waited.

 

[mulveling]

Hah it’s the first time I heard that name too. Just latched into it now because I like it.

 

[336881]

We can disagree here. I can't help your interpretation.

We are talking about better alternatives; specifically if one aims for a T2/BHSE/exotic build.

We aren't talking about the garbage that is Cavalli or Eddie Current.

Don't look so much into the cheek.

It is still a better alternative than Stax.

 

[336881]

Paradoxper is right. Bread boy is treated like a god by some, but KG is the real genius behind these circuits. And from what I’ve heard (a lot) you can get better sound for less money from other builders. Absolutely no sense of aesthetic, either. He is a known (Very good) quality though, and quite prolific, I’ll give him that. His products are very reliable.

I respect Justin of Headamp a LOT more, though.

Yeah but unless you have the loot for a bhse you are out of luck as far as Justin goes. I'm not going to argue the chassis or aesthetics. But I can think of a few other builders here and there who do not go all out looks wise and still put out great sounding amps. Apex comes to mind. About the same quality as bread boy. I think Apex for the money sounds better than headamp.

 

[Jones Bob]

Kevin Gilmore’s designs are kindly offered to the DIY community on that other site. Some have brought their limited builds to market. Instead of bitching about what others have accomplished or complain why others are not doing as you like, why not pick up a soldering iron and build your own amp. It can be a lesson in humility.