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PWB Headphones, any one hear of 'em?
180$ is a pretty steep price for something that not much is known about. Vintage electrostatic headphones almost always need to be looked at as foam breaks down and shorts out and glue dries and cracks so it can be a bit of a pitfall. Most are bey... 
PWB Headphones, any one hear of 'em?
There is not much known about them and in the 5 years of collecting electrostatic headphones I've only come across the transformer/adapter once so they are quite rare. I'd love to see some pictures of them. 
STAX input voltage question
Email sent. Resting is overrated anyway. 
STAX input voltage question
Since your 100v amp has a plate over the voltage selector that changes everything. Thats how Stax shipped the 100v amps back in the 80's so they could be converted at a dealer but not by an individual. The simply configured the primaries correctly... 
STAX input voltage question
Since the voltage selector plug is lost, a former owner may have bypassed it since the amp will not receive any power if it isn't there. There are 4 primaries if I remember it correctly, two 20v and two 100v, but I could be wrong. I don't have any... 
STAX input voltage question
What the voltage selector plug does is rearrange the primaries of the transformers so they are reflect the input voltage. It's hard to tell if Stax changed the transformer or if the bypassed the selector switch or if it was some after market mod. ... 
STAX input voltage question
Glad to help or bring you deeper into the headphone madness. I've got it pretty bad with more the 40 electrostatic headphones, some 7 amps and 20+ adapters. I'll see you in the Stax thread on head-fi 
STAX input voltage question
There are many different versions of the SRM-1 Mk2 and some have a voltage selector and some do not. It could even be hidden inside but you can never know with Stax. Since it says 100v only on the back then the amp is Japan spec and probably confi...