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Isaac Perez
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Aiden Harris
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Redpill on STAX for newbies: STAX is an old Jap company with outdated tech that was considered high end back in the 1960s and 1970s but sounds like ass by today's standards, so they went nearly bankrupt.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.
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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.
In a separate study:
>The very highest end STAX ($4000 SR-009) was rated lower in blind tests than a $200 K701
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To add insult to overpriced injury, they have shitty plastic build quality that you would expect on cheap chinkshit headphones:
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Oratory (respected sound engineer) on the build:
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.
Austin Smith
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Daily reminder that Stax is 1970s shit and is handfully beaten by modern planar headphones.
Justin Hill
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Joseph Wright
What’s listening to right now, user?
Daniel Parker
DAILY REMINDER TO GET ON YOUR KNEES AND WORSHIP YOUR STAX IF YOUVE YET TO DO SO TODAY
Jayden Bennett
You two niggers please get a job and fuck off hpg forever.
Juan Gutierrez
yes
Gavin Evans
"DAILY REMINDER TO GET ON YOUR KNEES AND WORSHIP YOUR STAX IF YOUVE YET TO DO SO TODAY"