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Asher Diaz
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Ayden Foster
First sir SUMMIT FI
Zachary Campbell
Is it worth it to upgrade from a pair of Sennheiser 558s? If I did, here's the deets:
>East Coast, USA
>$200-$300
>Over-ear
>A wide range. Hard to narrow it down, but Gorillaz is my fav music group
>the previously mentioned Sennheiser 558s, but no dac/amp
Would it be better to invest in equipment over headphones? Dac/amps aren't my forte.
Xavier Diaz
Redpill on STAX for newbies: STAX is an old Jap company with outdated tech that was considered high end back in the 1960s and 1970s but sounds like ass by today's standards, so they went nearly bankrupt.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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Download the PDF of the study at: mega.nz
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.
Brody Anderson
Buy Stax, stax is god.
Andrew Morales
this, even the entry level Stax 3100 sounds better than any dynamics or planars
Cameron Carter
Is there a recommended list out there of modern headphones that can substitute the AKG Q701 w/ O2 combo? After seven years the q701 left driver finally died. Sucks
Mason Stewart
Stax
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Angel Morgan
ditch the O2 retard
Charles Cook
Buy Stax. All of them, as many times as possible.
Luke Sullivan
Stax is better than sex with supermodels. Anyone who doesn't buy Stax is a moron and should be ashamed of themselves.
David Green
Would you sell me your right driver? The right driver on my k7xx has died recently and apparently they use q701 driver.
Jayden Parker
My SR-L700s died on me. What should I get to replace them?
Landon Turner
L700mk2
Carson Lee
Those exist now?
Benjamin Lewis
Detachable cables and aluminum parts
Nathan King
So basically the L-700 but with the main issues fixed? I’ll have to check that out. Will probably compliment my LCD2Cs well.
Carter Bennett
hey im a poorfag looking to upgrade from his philips shp2500, comfy headphones but started to break
im from argentina, CABA to be exact
around 100 dollaridoos (around 5000 ars)
i would liek some over ears pls
can listen to anything from lolicore to harsh noise to pop so whatever good in the middle ground
well the philips i said and some other chinese headphones
ty for those who answer
Blake King
What was wrong with yours
Aaron Torres
Stax
Jose Harris
One of the channels just completely shat out for reasons unknown.
Isaac Young
Why not get it serviced by Stax???
Bentley Carter
any exact model my dear user?
Jeremiah Clark
Fuck you. Nobody wants stax. Just buy a beautiful utopia from baguette land or pic related if you want to be a weeb
Brandon Allen
Hello guys.
I'm doing audio production.
What would be a good, clean headphone set with a flat, balanced response on the 200$ range.
I have a Steinberg UR22 MK II and a pair of Eris E5 Monitor Speakers so I'm already covered on that aspect.
I'm using Samson SR 850 headphones for now, but I want to upgrade.
Justin Myers
oh well thanks didnt read it
frick u my dear user
Eli Evans
Lol why?
t. owned the O2 for two years.
Ryder Carter
Anyone got a recommendation for a good amp for my SR-L300’s?
Luis Rivera
yes
Andrew Cook
SO WHAT KINDA MUSIC DOES /HPG/ ACTUALLY LISTEN TO TO MAKE USE OF THEIR AUTISTIC FUCKING HEADPHONE SETUP?
Adrian Campbell
frequency sweeps and squarewaves
Julian Adams
252s is fully capable.
Try and get it sent in even if the warranty has expired.
Nicholas Evans
We listen to headphones, not music.
David Hernandez
grados
Adrian Butler
Luis Nguyen
deep house mixes on youtube with my stax
Ethan Harris
only the finest in poorly mastered anime music
Jackson Ross
just upgraded to 598Cs from 518s after 5 years of using them exclusively. bretty cool. my amp is coming in next week. these are really neat.
James Wright
Only reason to upgrade from 252s is if you want to tighten up the lower frequencies, mainly the subbass. If you are in a financial situation where you can easily afford $3-5000 amplifier for essentially 1-2% increase in sonical performance, then you should jump on KG amps.
Gavin Howard
252S does 110 dB 20 Hz on 007 easily.
Tyler Campbell
Frequency response between all SS amps should be all identical. Where you see the difference is impulse respons. Which is why I said 1-2% difference.
Elijah Hughes
Impulse response is frequency response.
Aaron Allen
what's your impression
Cooper Perez
I can listen to porn at 100% now without waking everyone up. 10/10
Hunter Turner
Dude you mom is gonna walk on in you and you’re not gonna hear her!!
Sebastian Turner
She can join
Brandon Howard
hot
Ian Gomez
bump
Thomas Scott
hd559
Easton Gray
Got to demo the DT 880s earlier today, (no 990) oddly enough they sound like my Takstar Pro 80s bass and mids wise, more noticable increase in treble and really awesome soundstage and imaging.
Will the 990 offer a better improvent?
Liam Martin
all dynamics share the same weakness, try estats like Stax for improvement
Connor Evans
they sound similar because takstars are a chinese knockoff beyer also the 990 is worse than the 880
Jace Phillips
the cheap beyers are outdated and seriously overpriced today. try somehing else like hd6xx or ad1000x
Logan Cox
Thanks, I might go for the 58X then, shame they have shit soundstage.
Carter Morris
I'm an audio noob, what are frequency response and impulse response?
Isaac Hughes
Impulse response is when you send a click to the headphone or instrument containing all frequencies at once. Frequency response uses the impulse response to produce a chart showing the efficiency of the phone along the audible spectrum.
Logan Taylor
lol
David Thomas
?
Charles Stewart
Using stax to listen to a low detailed, high amount of low end genre like deep house doesn't seem enjoyable
Logan Wood
Any reason why on the O2 comment? Is the O2 now considered bad?
Sorry for very late response, i wouldnt mind doing that for you but dont use online vending sites. In california by any chance?
Ryan Ward
yeah its hot trash
Adam Lee
>doesn't seem enjoyable
only someone who has never heard a pair of stax would utter such bullshit
Jace Rogers
There's nothing wrong with the o2.
Blake Baker
fair just an opinion m8
Thomas Gonzalez
I thought so, its a nice amp for what it does at value also,
What happened to this general whats up with this stax spam? Is it similar to the schiit spam/shilling from years ago? Havent been here for a while
Bentley Bailey
ignore the stax spam
Brandon Sanders
With that said, I wouldn't recommend the o2 nowadays. The combo costs 250 bucks. There are cheaper or more powerful alternatives out there for less.
But no reason to upgrade from the o2 tho.
Jaxson Ramirez
Want Reccomendations
>Australia
>$200au
>Over ear
>Flat
Caleb Moore
Kayden Bailey
>whats up with this stax spam
Most people have moved to them as they are better.
Sebastian Allen
I've been using this turdle beach headset for like 5 years and its starting to fall apart.
I'm not so much of a poorfag anymore and would like to get something a little better.
Throw reccomendations at me of
Wyatt Jones
i strongly recommend the focal elex
Nathan Carter
Opinions on Dekoni?
Robert Allen
comfy
Levi Robinson
Edifier bought Stax for just a million dollars and are trying to bring it back by marketing it online to the budding young naive audiophile demographic of weebs that watch Zeos and like anime.
They hire interns to market here, they have a discord server to organize the shilling and always keep at least one representative here to bump and promote Stax.
Austin Howard
how come these aren't talked about more often? they are extremely cheap, have flat unending planar-like bass and are dark sounding so don't make your ears bleed. once you replace the pads they're comfy as well.
Evan Lewis
We would like you to know, none of the opinions and statements posted on Jow Forums or 4channel are our official statements, thank you. We also do not run advertising campaigns on this "alt-right" image board that promotes racism and white supremacy.
Nathan Fisher
>they have a discord server to organize the shilling
kek he actually believes this
Zachary Brown
False, stax is simply summit fi which is why everyone is praising it. It is the greatness of the sound waves making music that brings much joy and happiness.
Kayden Walker
i dont listen to music i listen to headphones.
Nicholas Edwards
Fuck off chink.
Samuel Collins
He has a smooth sexy voice tho
Cooper Sullivan
how can I tell the shills apart from honest recommendations in this thread?
I was looking for open back headphones but I might just buy DT 1990 since I already like my DT 770 Pro and don't feel like experimenting with different brands.
Charles Price
Im sorry how do you know what is voice sounds like also thats not me I had him post that picture on here just to fuck with yall but he doesnt come on here just to browse he tends to stay away in any case he returned the 009 and bought 007A
Zachary Sanders
DX3PRO guy from Europe. It's been few months since I got it and I'm happy with it so far.
Matthew Ward
You know nothing
Ayden Martin
huh I don't do I?
Anthony Smith
Holy shit I love Rockbox.
My Clip+ was starting to give me shit about bettery(one charge would last just ~1h) so I decided to give it a try and installed Rockbox on it.
Right away it saw that my battery was only 10% charged and I could finally charge the battery fully effectively fixing it. Fucking amzing.
Sebastian Bell
Mikko please post your voice here you sexy son of a gun. How's your new microphone?
Owen Roberts
Buy Stax.
Thomas Sullivan
oh boy this is one of the insiders lol
Leo Jackson
lol...Who are you?
Evan Brooks
Im one of the mods in that server
Tyler Perez
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Carter Nelson
Ryder Williams
>someone says Stax shills here (duh) and that they use a discord server to monitor and coordinate
>instantly a bunch of "organic" posters appear out of nowhere after hours of inactivity in the thread to damage control and say there is no shilling and no discord server and how its all organic
Really makes you think.
Evan Campbell
HH
Caleb Rivera
i never argued against there being a discord i merely stated the fact that the discord isnt a stax discord
oh no I meant the Jow Forums discord
Josiah Rogers
>posting a completely different community
Nice deflection
Lucas Cooper
How can I get the THX AAA789? The drop sold out immediately, is there anyone selling them?