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In Reply to: RE: let's not forget electrostatics..... posted by Davy on September 24, 2010 at 16:56:10

I have triamped (ala' DEQX) 3.6's (well triamped plus subs below 55 Hz...)

I am on the Audeze waitlist, supposed to ship my LCD2's in early October....
I am warming up my Beta 22, my Bottlehead Crack and Bijou amps now!

I also have QUAD ESL 57's. They sound great, and have bass (in my small room they do-) but I have never heard Stax phones that had what I would call GREAT bass like my Sennheiser HD800's do or like the Audeze are reputed to have. And I've listend to Stax 007 on Uber amps like the Blue Hawaii etc.

The other thing is, the diaphragms in the Stax phones I've listened to crackle when you adjust the earcups - the changes in air pressure as you fiddle with the cans, sealing and unselaing them from your ears seems to cause the diaphragms (or dust covers?) to be pumped about. This crackling stops if you quite messing with the phones and just leave them sit on your head, but I still don't like this effect.

I also don't like the cost of the top end Stax and their associated electronics.

In the early 1970's I had Koss ESP 9's, and at the time they were about the best there was. I liked them. But I would like to now be able to compare them to my HD800's. I don't recall the ESP-9's having bass like the HD800's, but of course "sonic memory" is hideously unreliable, so I think it would be fun to be able to compare them now, side-by-side.

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