"normanstrong" wrote in message ...
"Michael Scarpitti" wrote in message
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The point is, it is simply not worth my time to converse with those
who deny that such differences can be heard at all.

If you would like, go to an audio shop that carries used products of
this kind, and ask to take them home. Hook them up to a set of Stax
Lambdas through a transformer such as the SRD-7.

Then you will hear the differences.

I don't deny that you heard differences. What I want to know is how
you hooked up the headphones to the amplifiers?

Norm Strong

Are you unfamiliar with Stax electrostatic headphones? They are called
'earspeakers'. You simply attach the cables coming from the Stax
transformer to the speaker outputs of your power amp. The headphones
are polarized by AC current, and the power amp supplies the signal.
They are extremely accurate and fast transducers. If you have a chance
to listen to them, do so.

On 3 Mar 2004 17:16:51 GMT, (Michael
Scarpitti) wrote:

Are you unfamiliar with Stax electrostatic headphones? They are called
'earspeakers'.

That's what Stax calls them. Everyone else calls them headphones......

You simply attach the cables coming from the Stax
transformer to the speaker outputs of your power amp. The headphones
are polarized by AC current, and the power amp supplies the signal.
They are extremely accurate and fast transducers. If you have a chance
to listen to them, do so.

I have listened to them many times, and I have a particular affection
for the Lambda. Perhaps it's a certain lack of familiarity with the
Stax *range* which prompted your challenging the question, since not
all Stax 'phones are self-polarising. Also, the questioner may have
wondered if you had hooked up a dummy speaker load in parallel with
the 'phones, in order to provide a more rigorous test of the power amp
while at the same time using a highly sensitive listening tool.
Clearly, you did not.

However, this has nothing to do with your refusal to understand that
*sighted* testing is useless for the discrimination of subtle sonic
differences. Also, unless you are intending to use *only* the Stax
'phones with that power amp, it's a very poor test of a power amp,
since hardly any power is required to drive them.
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Stewart Pinkerton | Music is Art - Audio is Engineering