wppk
100+ Head-Fier
hello I am french ( so sorry for the possible mistakes in my english.
I own several stax, and I find the srx Mark 3 is really the best for its beautiful sound and clarity in the medium / high frequencies. But as You may know, this earphone is lacking a bit of bass.
as a recording/sound engineer, and professional sound producer, I have always been looking, like many of you, for ideal listening conditions, espacially, for myslef, for monitoring purposes.
for loudspeakers, I have found what I call a perfect combination with a pair of tannoy Arden and a pair of magnepan mga, working together with two different amplifiers, a marantz pm 700 for the magnepan, and a Yamaha RX v 2090 for the Tannoy.
this makes a reaaly wonderful balance, that gives a very flat response curve and allows me to control recordings in an ideal way. I also produce digital 5.1 sound with a JBL radiance serie R123 for the center, and two Cabasse nautilus for the rear left and right loudspeakers, it works as in my dreams.
but As a voice talent, for film dubbing, radio, voice over ... I need to have a very good heaphone system to fit this perfectly harmonious system.
I tried quite a good deal of them, AKG, Sony mdr cd 1700 ( very good at bass but missing some clarity in the highest frequencies) stax sr 40, (was flat compared to the sony), other stax, but I was not completely satisfied.
the srx 3 I bought on ebay was wondeful, but a bit unbalanced, and, as everybody knows, lacking bass.
I wrote to a society that repairs stax headphones, and they told me that my stax needed a sound element that couldn't be found anymore.
so, I projected to buy another one on ebay, to change the defective part. But before, I disassembled the earphone, put a bit of electric contact mending fluid, and lightly touched the cable connector. It was enough to mend the problem !
also, as I am a speaker, I am most of the time just in front of my Neuman microphone, and it makes a problem : the sound that goes out from the stax earphones is strong enough, even with a low volume, to go back through the mike and then give an artifact that is oubviously not professional and of course disturbing. So, I couldn't use it while recording my voice, and had to go back to the sony, which problem was that it clicked while moving just a little bit while speaking, the plastic parts made parasite noises that I had to clean from my recordings.
so I thought of a solution : My little boy had several light moss balls for playing, I cut one in two parts, and after a little adaptation, it fitted the back of the earphones, stopped the sound from joining the mike, and gave perfect bass to the system !
I was puzzled because, before sticking the half balls, I tried to pou my hands on top of the earphones while listening, and it was on the contrary a new loss in bass, and odd sound.
but as the moss lets the air pass, it is not like closing the headhones ans applying a destructive effect to the sound.
As the stax was not confortable enough for long recording sessions, Ia found earpads which were not stax ones, much thicker, and put them instead. it doen't affet the sound in any way, but it is much more comfortable !
So, this makes everything perfect, and I hope it will help you to improve your srx mark 3 if you have one
Cordially
I own several stax, and I find the srx Mark 3 is really the best for its beautiful sound and clarity in the medium / high frequencies. But as You may know, this earphone is lacking a bit of bass.
as a recording/sound engineer, and professional sound producer, I have always been looking, like many of you, for ideal listening conditions, espacially, for myslef, for monitoring purposes.
for loudspeakers, I have found what I call a perfect combination with a pair of tannoy Arden and a pair of magnepan mga, working together with two different amplifiers, a marantz pm 700 for the magnepan, and a Yamaha RX v 2090 for the Tannoy.
this makes a reaaly wonderful balance, that gives a very flat response curve and allows me to control recordings in an ideal way. I also produce digital 5.1 sound with a JBL radiance serie R123 for the center, and two Cabasse nautilus for the rear left and right loudspeakers, it works as in my dreams.
but As a voice talent, for film dubbing, radio, voice over ... I need to have a very good heaphone system to fit this perfectly harmonious system.
I tried quite a good deal of them, AKG, Sony mdr cd 1700 ( very good at bass but missing some clarity in the highest frequencies) stax sr 40, (was flat compared to the sony), other stax, but I was not completely satisfied.
the srx 3 I bought on ebay was wondeful, but a bit unbalanced, and, as everybody knows, lacking bass.
I wrote to a society that repairs stax headphones, and they told me that my stax needed a sound element that couldn't be found anymore.
so, I projected to buy another one on ebay, to change the defective part. But before, I disassembled the earphone, put a bit of electric contact mending fluid, and lightly touched the cable connector. It was enough to mend the problem !
also, as I am a speaker, I am most of the time just in front of my Neuman microphone, and it makes a problem : the sound that goes out from the stax earphones is strong enough, even with a low volume, to go back through the mike and then give an artifact that is oubviously not professional and of course disturbing. So, I couldn't use it while recording my voice, and had to go back to the sony, which problem was that it clicked while moving just a little bit while speaking, the plastic parts made parasite noises that I had to clean from my recordings.
so I thought of a solution : My little boy had several light moss balls for playing, I cut one in two parts, and after a little adaptation, it fitted the back of the earphones, stopped the sound from joining the mike, and gave perfect bass to the system !
I was puzzled because, before sticking the half balls, I tried to pou my hands on top of the earphones while listening, and it was on the contrary a new loss in bass, and odd sound.
but as the moss lets the air pass, it is not like closing the headhones ans applying a destructive effect to the sound.
As the stax was not confortable enough for long recording sessions, Ia found earpads which were not stax ones, much thicker, and put them instead. it doen't affet the sound in any way, but it is much more comfortable !
So, this makes everything perfect, and I hope it will help you to improve your srx mark 3 if you have one
Cordially
