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Post by garycake on Sept 1, 2013 16:51:07 GMT
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Post by PinkFloyd on Sept 1, 2013 20:33:16 GMT
Anybody with £20K spare would be better served buying some "plant food" a cheapish pair of headphones and amp...... spend the remaining £19,400 on a new car. £20k For that is firmly aimed at fools with more money than sense. Mike. BTW.... welcome to the forum Gary
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Post by Deleted on Sept 1, 2013 21:44:52 GMT
Weren't these selling for a mere £10k originally? Early nineties and a limited production run. Never did get to hear a set but then I already had their HD414SL I remember the rep. flapping on about them but I had no real interest in headphones back then! The priciest I've heard was the Sony R10.
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Post by Deleted on Sept 12, 2013 4:00:11 GMT
I remember some critical reviews comparing the best Stax at the time to the Orpheus, and the Orpheus came out second. But since then a combination of going out of production and ongoing wagging by Sennheiser has somehow raised the Orpheus status to legendary proportions. I have little doubt the Stax SR009 would sound much better.
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Post by complin on Sept 13, 2013 11:50:47 GMT
Been for sale about 3 years. I would have thought he had got the message by now that nobody other than a Russian or Chinese oligarch is going to buy them at that price. If you look at all the items he has for sale they are well overpriced
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Post by Deleted on Sept 13, 2013 16:21:48 GMT
Been for sale about 3 years. I would have thought he had got the message by now that nobody other than a Russian or Chinese oligarch is going to buy them at that price. If you look at all the items he has for sale they are well overpriced This makes me wonder - some of those components are bound to deteriorate, especially earpads and headband pad. It's going to be tough to replace those. The sound would critically depend on perfect earpads.
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Post by eugenius on Sept 17, 2013 5:27:46 GMT
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Post by Deleted on Sept 17, 2013 6:15:45 GMT
Very nice ! No need for those performance degrading opamp filters in line before the headphone amplifier either. I don't give a rant's anus what some report , but if I have a Class A HA with close to 4 zeroes in the distortion figures, low noise and wide channel separation, the last thing I would want is to have another power supply to feed in line opamps before it. Of course, if you are using mediocre mass market headphones, the filters would likely make an improvement.. I wonder how many using filters and mass market headphones use them with the likes of 24/192 material from Barry Diament, or the latest DSD downloads. Alex
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Post by Deleted on Sept 17, 2013 22:05:54 GMT
Hook, line and sinker ! It's good to see that we are still being read by the people who don't even normally use a high quality DAC in line, let alone listen to 24/192 or the very latest higher performing DSD downloads. Elsewhere, they are moving forward to new DSD DACs, and DSD material that is claimed to sound even more like the real thing than perhaps even 24/192 . Even Sony is now getting back into DSD hardware and making available DSD material from their vaults. www.computeraudiophile.com/f10-music-servers/sony-announces-dsd-capable-hardware-17390/
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Post by Deleted on Sept 18, 2013 5:07:51 GMT
Funny - the changstar freq. response plot looks a little bright, unless Innerfidelity's charts and Stax's charts of the better headphones are wrong. Also a 4 db dip around 1500 hz.
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