KJ West One announce that they are now stocking the Stax ‘earspeakers’ range. They have a number of models now available for demonstration in store, including the only pair of their flagship SR-009 headphones in London.
The London store currently have the SR-009 and SR-007 MKII earspeakers and the SRM-007tII Kimik energiser available to try and are expecting the new SR-L500 headphones and SRM-353X energiser soon.
Stax invented the world's first electrostatic headphones in 1960. Electrostats operate as di-poles, the sound comes out the front and rear, requiring a truly "Open Air" cage design with no surface area to create back-wave interference. The Stax SR-L300 have a Push-Pull electrostatic oval sound element with an Open-Air type enclosure. They have a frequency response of 7 Hz –…
The headphone market is growing as we all know but there’s been a constant in the market since I was a teenager many moons ago and that’s the STAX headphones…or ear-speakers as they called them. Unless you are happy with the headphone amplifier from STAX the options are pretty thin on the ground should you wish to have a change…
At £3495 the Stax SR-009 headphones are intended for the committed headphone listener. For Hifi Pig's ongoing « Headphone Month » Janine Elliot takes a listen... The thought of swapping the review of a £60 pair of headphones to a £3,495 Stax monolith was like getting out of a 2CV and taking off in a McLaren F1. There was just…
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