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God I’ve got to get STAX in my life

hey fellow kids!

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Redpill on STAX for newbies: STAX is an old Jap company with outdated tech that was considered high end back in the 1960s and 1970s but sounds like ass by today's standards, so they went nearly bankrupt. They were purchased by a Chinese company for just a million dollars who decided to market STAX to the audiophool "more expensive is better" demographic who buys those crappy $3000 vinyl players, they shill heavily on HeadFi and here on /hpg/, plus they pay Zeos to shill their crap.

>In December 2011, Chinese loudspeaker manufacturer Edifier announced the acquisition of 100% equity in Stax

Oratory has measured the highest end STAX, the SR-009S.

dropbox.com/s/61srehjyaltd7w0/Stax SR-009S.pdf?dl=0

dropbox.com/s/dm0m6u3s3b4zqzl/Sennheiser HD600.pdf?dl=0

It's worse than the HD600. HD600 scored 92 and SR-009S scored 76.

Recently Rtings rated STAX across various dimension, it's worse in terms of sound than mid-priced offerings from Hifiman and Audeze, and only got a 7.7 rating.

i.imgur.com/W7hz3rh.png

In a separate study:

>The very highest end STAX ($4000 SR-009) was rated lower in blind tests than a $200 K701

aes.org/e-lib/browse.cfm?elib=17441

Download the PDF of the study at: mega.nz/#F!3MFm1DrD!4GlU_vNtEeF148kZcQ05wA

To add insult to overpriced injury, they have shitty plastic build quality that you would expect on cheap chinkshit headphones:

youtube.com/watch?v=Bf38cKJ6NBc

Oratory (respected sound engineer) on the build:

i.imgur.com/Dru4gzZ.png

Even best Stax headphones sound objectively worse than mid-fi. This is why they don't demo them in store, they rely on the internet to create a sense of mystique around STAX and shill it as the endgame because its expensive, Asian, rare and obscure. In reality its no bass sounding garbage, with shrill highs that appeal only to near-deaf boomer. STAX is Made in China snakeoil for the audiophool boomer.

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imagine not owning stax

They hate us cause they anus.

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nostax baby looking for everything he can to comfort himself from never experiencing the unbeatable, magical, divine audio fidelity that is STAX

Anyone ever tried the Burson discrete opamps? Thinking of replacing the crappy OPA2134 in my DAC / preamp.

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>t.triggered nostax incel

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I cant decide between hd6xx or hd58x!
Some people say hd6xx are better but others say the hd58x are like hd660s which are better than hd600 which the 6xx are emulating
Fuck idk help me

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>6xx
Are just HD650 with cheaper plastic.
>HD660S better than HD600
They are not.

Buy STAX

Just get Stax

My stax 007 is coming soon!

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how long till you get a proper energizer to drive them?

thanks
i actually order the 58x 2 weeks ago and they werent going to ship for 3 weeks and i said fuck it and "upgraded" to the hd6xx cause they were in stock and would ship instantly
but then watched the z reviews video on the 58x and he said they were as good as 660s when you take the foam out and in his 660s review said they were better than his fancy hd600s
so idk man
my 6xx should be arriving this week and ill just enjoy them

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>i’ll just enjoy them
not so fast

>hd58x
Are hopeless garbage. Don't throw your money away.

Hmmmmm I think I'll wait for a good deal on the used market.

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which KG

Why people insist that the HE400i are better than the HE400s, when they're just a darker sounding version of the same phone?
Get better pads for the HE400s's and you're fucking gold.

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The fake silver just looks so fucking cheap it hurts

I dunno yet. I just want to get the CC and be done with headphones

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Stax are the equivalent of a mechanical watch

Yes, I have both, you jelly?

>on the 58x and he said they were as good as 660s when you take the foam out
This is confirmed to be complete bullshit. Don't bother with his reviews, he just wants you to buy something using his referral links.

got a link to proof of that?
i believe you i just want to see read it in full

get the 6XX

Do you buy them to look at them on the stand and post pictures, or do you buy them to listen to them?

Good point, but gaudy aesthetics just rub me the wrong way. It's one thing to discard form and focus on function like a lot of ugly audiophile headphones but adding obviously cheap yet flashy finishes just seem low class as fuck.

STAX REQUIRE STAX OF MONEY AND ARE STAX OF SHIT
>STAX REQUIRE STAX OF MONEY AND ARE STAX OF SHIT
STAX REQUIRE STAX OF MONEY AND ARE STAX OF SHIT
>STAX REQUIRE STAX OF MONEY AND ARE STAX OF SHIT
STAX REQUIRE STAX OF MONEY AND ARE STAX OF SHIT
>STAX REQUIRE STAX OF MONEY AND ARE STAX OF SHIT

This triggers the stax faggots

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diyaudioheaven.wordpress.com/headphones/measurements/brands-s-se/hd58x-jubilee-massdrop/

Being 100% sincere, I find the glossy finish on the HE400i is literally disgusting. Add to that those antenna connectors and I'd never buy one of those. Also, adding to Hifiman's reputation for terrible QC, their 3.5mm models are a bit of a roulette, since some of them have some issues that didn't happen on the s model.

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Official /hpg/ Headphone Ranking

Gigachad Tier
>Audeze
>Focal
>ZMF

Chad Tier
>Beyerdynamics
>Hifiman
>Meze

Okay Tier
>Sennheiser
>Final Audio
>Mr.Speakers
>Audio Technica

Shit Tier
>Grado
>Monoprice
>Sony
>Bose

Incel Tier
>STAX

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FUCK
BUY

in my experience you have to pay first

>"Why yes, I do have a Stax setup. How did you know?"

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I don't like it either. Anyways i suspect the reason the 400S appears to have better QC is because it's much less popular since the "upgraded model" 400i is cheaper.

Nice fantasy incel.

Here is your reality.

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>t. triggered nostax incel

based
cringe

>tfw an okay chady giggachad

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Does anyone have that video with that one faggot listening to music and twitching or something?

Imagine being so mentally ill and insecure you scour the Internet looking for images of unattractive people wearing the same headphones that people who made fun of you like

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...

based as fuck

How do you mod stax so it has bass? Say for example a SRS-3100 system.

youtube.com/watch?v=L34S4Tt1EuQ

lmao u added the stax one to my old post
i love it

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Best price on 3100?

$400-500

go with the hd6xx
there are some rumors of a silent revision of the hd58x after the first drop was too close to the hd660s, solderdude is currently trying to get a few more units to check if it's true

I hope you're not proud of that one

guys, buy stax ok?

what’s listening with tonight, user?

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what listen ye on foneheads nanonalona
youtu.be/mFH-j11aiE8

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What the fuck happened to these threads?
I left for a year once I bought my headphones. What's with this stax stuff, it used to be just a couple of guys.
Is it advertising? Aren't the mods doing anything?

it started with sapphire samefagging every single thread with nostax and stax incel posts
then it devolved into the regulars leaving, everyone else buying stax and then quitting, but now everyone's back

Do you guys really own Stax? They’re pretty damn expensive to say the least.

I would mostly agree with this. I'd put Sony in Chad, or maybe even Gigachad tier, though. They make some garbage shit for the Stax incels to buy to fund the glorious stuff.

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>everyone else buying stax
literally nobody, stax shills don't even own stax

a couple people have new stax, a few have used stax off buyee
legit cost me less than my hd600 and dx3 pro for a set of 404s and srm-1/mk2 when u get down to it

is this true?

nah queensryche boomer, bird user, floor user all have stax, and theyre the only ones that post about them except sapphire

Wait so the nostaxers are constantly seething at trolls who don't even own stax? Now that is sad.

Iems?

bingo :3
the only one i know who actively shills stax is sapphire and probably the only one who samefags about how stax are shit

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holy shit, they are pathetic. maybe i will buy stax just to dab on the nostax retards

vsonic gr07c
planning to buy an actual good IEM and l300 or l700 by the end of the year. Don't buy any of my shit unless you like eq. Don't even like the gr07 and at this point it seems to have been totally outdone by chink shit

desu i took the bait and bought stax and now my hd600 are collecting dust
never heard anything this clear in my life, except like planars.

Official /hpg/ Headphone Ranking

Gigachad Tier
>Airpods
>Beasts by Dre
>Skullcandy Crushers
>Jaybirds

Chad Tier
>Free earbuds

Okay Tier
>Bose
>Sennheiser
>Sony
>Beyerdynamics

Shit Tier
>Audio Technica
>Grado
>Monoprice

Incel Tier
>STAX
>Final Audio
>Mr.Speakers
>Audeze
>Focal
>ZMF
>Hifiman
>Meze

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>snapheiser trannydynamic and soiny anywhere but incel tier
incel detected

Only retarded incels care about audio.

which makes you a retarded incel since you cared enough to make the list

>Forgetting Koss
>Forgetting Fostex
>Forgetting Superlux

Why is it only stax get the likes around here

>tfw tranny but due to all the transition related costs i can only afford Superlux

Like or you will never enjoy your headphones agin

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...

i own stax, so there was a good chance i was never going to enjoy my headphones

i miss bass

for every like this post gets I'm going to break a pair of stax

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fuck off amir you fat bitch

how uncomfortable are those things?

Sniff my feet /hpg/

Are those stax feet?

nostaxlet incel shills on suicide watch lmao

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