[scompton]

Is the Google search available to non contributors?

 

[tml09]

I was going to buy a DT880 and a Little Dot MKIV, but this has intrigued me. How good would a stax setup around $500 be compared to this? The main thing I'm looking for is soundstage and precise imaging.

 

[ktm]

I got a sr4/srd40 combo with 16 foot extention cord off EBAY for $86 US
shipped. I also picked up a closeout demo sr202/srm313 combo like new
for $560 US shipped. I am currently bidding on a Lambda Pro set of
phones on EBAY under sucks2beme id. Hard to stop once you get started.
At some point, I'll have to sort out keepers from sell offs.

 

[scompton]

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Originally Posted by tml09 /img/forum/go_quote.gif I was going to buy a DT880 and a Little Dot MKIV, but this has intrigued me. How good would a stax setup around $500 be compared to this? The main thing I'm looking for is soundstage and precise imaging.

I own the DT880, but no tube amp, and vintage, normal bias Stax, SR-5 and SR-Gamma. The Stax blow away the DT880 in sound stage and imaging.

 

[erikzen]

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Originally Posted by smeggy /img/forum/go_quote.gif Don't think, buy!

There is no think, only buy and buy not.

-Yoda on Stax

Seriously, I spent $600 on a SRM-1/MKII and Lambda Pro combo. This was after not wanting to spend a lot on a dynamic rig but never finding the sound I liked. I kept buying and selling amps and headphones. If I had gotten the Stax set up first I would have at least saved a lot of time and money on selling and shipping my headphones.

It is best if you can audition first, but it's hard to do that with older equipment and a meet is not ideal as there is usually too much noise in the room. I was lucky and a fellow Head-Fier lent me his Stax and when I told him he wasn't getting them back he agreed to sell.

 

[MaloS]

Heh, it is also amusing to realize that the Stax thread, while very large, probably has the highest density of information of all the threads on head-fi. I made a few attempts to start informative threads for dynamic headphone users a while ago - and all I got was feeble responses along the lines of 'I like this setup - recommend it' from people who did not hear anything else.
For Stax - even this thread - however many questions were asked by folks taking interest, all of them were answered within a post or 2 by experienced members.

 

[scompton]

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Heh, it is also amusing to realize that the Stax thread, while very large, probably has the highest density of information of all the threads on head-fi.

The Ortho thread comes close

 

[MaloS]

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Originally Posted by scompton /img/forum/go_quote.gif The Ortho thread comes close

True. That one is most definitely a 'niche' market though =).

 

[moonboy403]

I have a question about the SRD-7/SB. I know that it requires a speaker amp. What I'm not sure about is the input of the SRD-7/SB, does it take regular speaker wire only?

Thanks!

 

[Al4x]

so what do you have to shell out to get a stax setup thats gonna beat most ~£300-400 headphones+amp

to put it another way, is, at that price level, a stax setup or a dymanic setup better?

 

[krmathis]

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Originally Posted by moonboy403 /img/forum/go_quote.gif I have a question about the SRD-7/SB. I know that it requires a speaker amp. What I'm not sure about is the input of the SRD-7/SB, does it take regular speaker wire only? Thanks!

The SRD-7 have a cable attached to its back side. The ends of this cable attach to the speaker out bindings on a regular speaker amplifier.
You then connect your speaker wires (for your speakers) to the bindings on the backside of the SRD-7, and use the switch to select either headphones or speakers.

 

[moonboy403]

How good of an amp would I need for the SRD-7?

would something like PylePro Mini 2X40W Stereo Power Amplifier - PTA2 - Buy.com be good enough?

 

[Duggeh]

Quote:

Originally Posted by Al4x /img/forum/go_quote.gif so what do you have to shell out to get a stax setup thats gonna beat most ~£300-400 headphones+amp to put it another way, is, at that price level, a stax setup or a dymanic setup better?

£200 (used) for the 2020 would, imo, beat easily any sub £400 dynamic combo.

 

[scompton]

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Originally Posted by moonboy403 /img/forum/go_quote.gif How good of an amp would I need for the SRD-7? would something like PylePro Mini 2X40W Stereo Power Amplifier - PTA2 - Buy.com be good enough?

The better the amp sounds with speakers, the better the ear speakers will sound. The ones I own sound good from a 15 watt Sonic Impact Super T. They sound better out of my NAD integrated amp. I have no idea how the PylePro sounds so I can't comment on that.

 

[slwiser]

Quote:

Originally Posted by moonboy403 /img/forum/go_quote.gif I have a question about the SRD-7/SB. I know that it requires a speaker amp. What I'm not sure about is the input of the SRD-7/SB, does it take regular speaker wire only? Thanks!

My amp the Nuforce Icon has speaker cables that have a banana clip on each end. My SRD-7 Pro has banana clips on its input wires. All I have to do is to connect these using banana couplers.

Easy....the hard part is finding the rare couplers which I now have found.