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In the Thread: (Hopefully short) headphone journey
Post Subject: SourcePosted by N-set on: 6/28/2013
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 scooter wrote:

I think that is a VERY interesting issue to think about in the broader scope of sound reproduction with full-scale systems.


I'm not sure it's so interesting in the context of speakers--you have much more parameters to play with than with the headphones.
You can change drivers, crossover points, topology, positioning etc etc etc. I believe this chaos is a very "low level"
hardware error so to speak.
But with the headphones I agree, it's more challenging.

 scooter wrote:

I suspected these systems were sensitive to source and electricity; but these were potential secondary issues . This is because I tried a lot of these electrostatic systems, under different conditions, at different times, at different places and noticed the same "irritating chaos" consistently.


From my limited experience I'd be very careful calling the source a "secondary issue" with top Staxes!
Right to the contrary.
I've never been to all those CanJams and other orgies of headphone lovers (I listen on the headphones
because this is the only option for me, not because I love them, I hate them actually), but looking at the dozens of pictures
appearing each bloody year one sees the same bullshit, again and again, no serious source efforts to talk about, and marginally better
when it comes to the amps (so called "Stax mafia" producing one engineering fetish after the other)
 Not to talk about musical tastes....As I said, I'm decided to try to resolve the amplification question
myself (the initial details are in the Staxquiades thread)

Cheers,
N-set

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