chinsettawong
Headphoneus Supremus
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Hi!
It seems very strange to me how your headphones would sound nice and have imbalanced sound later on. Do you think that they sound equally soft at the beginning and after a while one would sound louder than the other?
Given its age, it's very possible that the coating material has started to degrade. If you think you can and want to recoat the diaphragm, I can guide you through that.
Wachara C.
Thanks a lot for the advice livewire. In fact I was in the process of doing that already and just got an SRD-6 delivered today.
Unfortunately the problem continues with the SRD-6 so now I know it is a problem with the SR-3 headphones. For the engineering and scientifically inclined folks out there, here are the new data points:
The SRD-6 running the SR-3's has exactly the same problem BUT it happens at a slower rate. It takes about 3 songs before my balance control needs to swing all the way over to the left side in an attempt to stay balanced. Most of the first song listened to sounds great and I though the problem was resolved after changing from the SRD-5. However, it became apparent that the fading out is still the same but just slower with the passive SRD-6 than the electrically biased SRD-5.
Turning off the power amp and then trying again in 10-15 minutes shows the SR-3 to have regained about 1/2 of the loss but not yet balanced (about 9 o'clock on the balance control instead of the < 7 o'clock where it was pinned to earlier).
Thanks for the links to Ken Rockwell's site, I had already read all I could there but other folks with vintage Stax will find good reviews there.
So, the bottom line seems to be the SR-3's need repairing. What do I do now?
Hi!
It seems very strange to me how your headphones would sound nice and have imbalanced sound later on. Do you think that they sound equally soft at the beginning and after a while one would sound louder than the other?
Given its age, it's very possible that the coating material has started to degrade. If you think you can and want to recoat the diaphragm, I can guide you through that.
Wachara C.