Vacuum tube amplified headphones...
....is an item that personally I've no real interest in, nor am I in any way linked to or have any potential to make any financial gain upon....nor do I know any of those involved with them....
But, in the interest of those would might find such an item of interest:
When a pair hits your pate, let me know if it's a hit *ow*...or a miss *(f/m voice) "What?..."*
I get notifications on K/S projects, and this is the 1st one I've seen of this nature.
If I see anything of an 'phile nature, I'll post it 'for your consideration'...just because. ;)
Have a great weekend, J
Point well made. One thing stopping me is I sold the B&W 801s I had then and now have Martin Logan CLX Anniversaries that also sound detailed clean and clear and perhaps just a little headphone like (remembering the Stax are electrostatics as well). But you're right, I should get the Stax out again and try them against the MLs. |
A friend who is a ESL user, as I am myself, builds Ribbon Headphones which require a purpose made Amp/Energiser? I am not a Headphone user and after another who is an advocate of ESL's and Headphones brought their Stax Model for a comparison to the Ribbon Headphones, the positive reports on the experience captured my curiosity. I was offered a chance to experience the Ribbon design in use, through a VAC Valve Amp, it took a few tracks for myself to settle and acclimatise to having encapsulated ears. A CD I use for demo's was also used, about a half hour in to the demo'. The Ribbon design produced a depth to the Soundstage and Details that I know about and will use to determine the quality of details being extracted from the recording. Using the Ribbon Headphone as the listening method, there was a very obvious presence of attractors, the depth was considerable and the details vivid, certain aspects are seemingly tangible. A few tracks were repeated after the demo', through the ESL's. The Headphones were spectacular as a comparison, it really does require a lot from a Speaker in a Room to generate the sense that a performer is present and can be touched. The Ribbon Headphones proved to be capable to to create being their presence with ease, and was a common experience, I will one day be set up to really enjoy opportunities to have periods where Headphones are in use in my own system. |
I am now a headphone fan because fate take my acoustic room and speakers away, but with the AKG K340 hybrid, my actual system beat my tuned speakers/room , and to beat my K340 someone will need a dedicated acoustic room with speakers way better than my Mission Cyrus 781...Cost : over the sky...( ask an acoustician how is the cost a dedicated room, and if you do it yourself , i takes me at least a year full time of listenings experiments to figure out and tune my resonators )
Cost of my Akg K340 : 100 bucks ...By the way the bass i hear correspond to a subwoofer arrays...but it vtakes me 6 months to peut them on their optimal level ( 6 modifications) Nothing is easy... But it is more simple than speakers/room well done...i dont think that in S.Q. many headpgone can beat them, after all they were compared to Stax omega favorably because of deep bass impact and holography and electrostatic highs and this 45 years ago without optimization... 😁😊 |
@pindac , that's what I've read about ribbon 'phones, but haven't had the experience....nor esl types, the cost of which is not in my budget... 'scuse... @ghdprentice , here's one version of that cartoon; there's an LP variant of an iPod that's cute....
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