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| The Best Audiophile Earphones headphones and Amp Quick update. The Stax SR-009 (was codenamed C32) is now in my system and it sings, oh yes does it sing! It's pretentious to say so but I think the competition, regardless of technology, is going to sweat a few bullets to catch up with this one...... | |
| The Best Audiophile Earphones headphones and Amp Gopher: good point about the budget... Having said that, I do not expect the same type of crowd here as head-fi. Not only referring about the average age, but also (it correlates though) about the wallet size. I think people who have invested into... | |
| The Best Audiophile Earphones headphones and Amp I second Tonykay's message: it has taken me over 10 years to get to appreciate what Stax headphones can do. As of today, I have sold all my electrodynamic headphones and only use the Stax Omega 2 mkII with SRM-727A amplifier (about 3.5kUSD combo).... | |
| Esoteric K-01 Dear Matjet, I own the current top of the line: > Omega 2 MkII headphone (referred as SR-007A), retailing for 1500-2000USD I think.> SRM-727A amplifier, this is the solid state version which retails for about 1500USD (you'd need to check whe... | |
| Esoteric K-01 Dear Matjet,Re your inquiry about headphone amps: Stax headphones are electrostatic type so you need a special amplifier for them. I use an SRM727A with my Omega 2 (SR-007A). It's expensive on its own (around 1000USD) but peanuts compared to a sou... | |
| Esoteric K-01 dear Matjet,thank you for your reply. I am hoping to listen to the K01 again with my Stax headphone rig (I would wanna do that prior to purchase), then I'd be better able to address the performance in terms of instrument separation / imaging. I kn... | |
| Esoteric K-01 Hello, I never post here but read stuff once in a while. There's not much out there about the K01 so this thread is one of the only places where I could find some information. I could compare the P05/D05 to K01 and K03 today. I posted some impress... |