[mirumu]

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Originally Posted by Carl /img/forum/go_quote.gif Nothing beginning with "12A" sounds amazing.

Hence my comments.

I guess some of the "12A" tubes are easy to find/buy and work with.

 

[spritzer]

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Originally Posted by mirumu /img/forum/go_quote.gif Hence my comments. I guess some of the "12A" tubes are easy to find/buy and work with.

Designers tend to use tubes they and the customer are familiar with and not some obscure design that might be a much better fit.

It is a really interesting amp and it is great value with those very tasty Tamura transformers. With 15+15w you should be able to drive the Quad ESL for a very nice dual electrostatic setup.

BTW. Carl I'm going to send Justin a message since I haven't heard back from him in a week regarding the PCB's.

 

[Carl]

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Originally Posted by spritzer /img/forum/go_quote.gif It is a really interesting amp and it is great value with those very tasty Tamura transformers. With 15+15w you should be able to drive the Quad ESL for a very nice dual electrostatic setup.

I wish someone would bite the bullet. I'm sure there are some here who would be quite interested in it.

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BTW. Carl I'm going to send Justin a message since I haven't heard back from him in a week regarding the PCB's.

Cheers, thanks Birgir.

 

[Andre Jute]

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Originally Posted by spritzer /img/forum/go_quote.gif With 15+15w you should be able to drive the Quad ESL for a very nice dual electrostatic setup.

Besides my own amps, the amp that in the last decade I loved best for driving Quad ESL (57) and the ESL-63 was Triode Supply Japan's Miyabe, SEPP 300B, good for around 16W per channel. I still have one standing on the floor (I fell across it today, looking for grommets to put on my pedal bike) out of the several I had at one stage; perhaps I should turn it into a Stax driver...

Andre Jute
"Blessed is the man who, having nothing to say, abstains from giving us wordly evidence of the fact."-- George Elliot

 

[patrickamory]

Cool looking amp, especially the transformers.

Japanese audiophilia is always fascinating. This site introduced me to... vintage cable...

http://translate.google.com/translat...language_tools

 

[Johnny Blue]

Calling all you Stax experts:

I have, at last, got myself a pair of SR-5s to compare with my SR-Xs (initial impression is that they are not nearly so behind the SR-Xs as I'd been led to believe they would be, by various postings on this thread... )

Anyway, my question is, what model do I have? They were listed as plain SR-5s, but they have a flat cable (and spritzer, it's round at the insertion point, not square like the ones we both have, for our SR-Xs), they are white (actually more cream) in colour (so, sadly, presumably not the Gold version, which are only in black?), and the Stax labels have a gold background. Can't find the SN on the band, but the SR-6/SB that came with them is numbered in the 17000s. Any ideas? Are they SR-5Ns? Or will I need to post a snap?

In any case, they're in great nick, and a bargain price (about 54 GBP), and very comfortable (I'm not mad keen on the SR-Xs actually pushing on my pinnae, so the semi-circumaural fit of the SR-5s is more comfortable for me, and of course the pads don't degenerate like those of the SR-Xs!).

 

[Carl]

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Originally Posted by Johnny Blue /img/forum/go_quote.gif Calling all you Stax experts: I have, at last, got myself a pair of SR-5s to compare with my SR-Xs (initial impression is that they are not nearly so behind the SR-Xs as I'd been led to believe they would be, by various postings on this thread... ) Anyway, my question is, what model do I have? They were listed as plain SR-5s, but they have a flat cable (and spritzer, it's round at the insertion point, not square like the ones we both have, for our SR-Xs), they are white (actually more cream) in colour (so, sadly, presumably not the Gold version, which are only in black?), and the Stax labels have a gold background. Can't find the SN on the band, but the SR-6/SB that came with them is numbered in the 17000s. Any ideas? Are they SR-5Ns? Or will I need to post a snap? In any case, they're in great nick, and a bargain price (about 54 GBP), and very comfortable (I'm not mad keen on the SR-Xs actually pushing on my pinnae, so the semi-circumaural fit of the SR-5s is more comfortable for me, and of course the pads don't degenerate like those of the SR-Xs!).

It's a normal SR-5. They might have been recabled by Stax later in their life for some reason, thus explaining the ribbon cable (which should otherwise only be present on the SR-5NB version.

You're not the only one who likes the SR-5, and they're certainly one of the best deals in electrostatics considering the regularly go for 25 to 50% less than the electret SR-80s do.

 

[Johnny Blue]

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Originally Posted by Carl /img/forum/go_quote.gif It's a normal SR-5. They might have been recabled by Stax later in their life for some reason, thus explaining the ribbon cable (which should otherwise only be present on the SR-5NB version. You're not the only one who likes the SR-5, and they're certainly one of the best deals in electrostatics considering the regularly go for 25 to 50% less than the electret SR-80s do.

Thanks, Carl. Why would they not be SR-5NBs? What do they look like?

 

[Carl]

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Originally Posted by Johnny Blue /img/forum/go_quote.gif What do they look like?

Like a SR-5N (black/gold) but with a cheap ribbon cable rather than one of those kettle power cords.

 

[Johnny Blue]

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Originally Posted by Carl /img/forum/go_quote.gif Like a SR-5N (black/gold) but with a cheap ribbon cable rather than one of those kettle power cords.

Now I AM confused! What does the 'kettle power cord' cable look like? I assumed that flat cable was flat/ribbon cable (varying in thickness and width, of course)?

 

[Carl]

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Originally Posted by Johnny Blue /img/forum/go_quote.gif Now I AM confused! What does the 'kettle power cord' cable look like? I assumed that flat cable was flat/ribbon cable (varying in thickness and width, of course)?

Same as the one on the SR-Xmk3.

 

[Johnny Blue]

Here's a snap of the SR-5s and SRD-6/SB:

 

[Carl]

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Originally Posted by Johnny Blue /img/forum/go_quote.gif Here's a snap of the SR-5s and SRD-6/SB:

Cheers. That's been recabled, 100% sure.


Here's what it normally looks like:

 

[cosmopragma]

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Originally Posted by Johnny Blue /img/forum/go_quote.gif they are white (actually more cream) in colour (so, sadly, presumably not the Gold version, which are only in black?)

It's inconsistent.
Stax has sold SR-5 Gold in white housings and black housings in Germany.I know it for sure since I've once owned a white SR5 Gold.

 

[Carl]

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Originally Posted by cosmopragma /img/forum/go_quote.gif It's inconsistent. Stax has sold SR-5 Gold in white housings and black housings in Germany.I know it for sure since I've once owned a white SR5 Gold.

The whole "gold" label is a misnomer anyway.

The SR-5 New was an upgraded version of the SR-5 with the same driver as the SR-Xmk3, and all of them were black, but how they were sold outside Japan was typical confusing 80s Stax.