Headphone Reviews

I'm making ready to head off to RMAF, but I certainly didn't want to shirk my duties measuring Stax headphones, and getting them back to their rightful owners.

Unfortunately, I just did a quick listen on each and didn't have time for listening tests, so other than a couple of notes here and there, I'll let the measurements speak for themselves.

We'll start with the round ear-piece; the rectangular ear-piece Stax will be on the next page.

Stax SR-009 New Out of Box (# SZ9-1278)
This is a brand new headphone of the second batch of SR-009 (shipped about mid-Sept '11), fresh out of the box. Compared with the first pair of SR-009s, which had some break-in time, the measurements are near identical with the exception of the THD+noise. It will be interesting to see if anything happens after they're used some, though it's just as likely an error in measurement. I'll be re-measuring these after RMAF.

Stax SR-009 (# SZ9-1207)
This is the first SR-009 I used during the high-end comparison. Wow! They sounded great. Look hard, there's some magic in these measurements.

Stax SR-007 (# SZ1-1023)
These are a late model Mk 1.

Stax SR-007 (#SZ3-1576)
These are a Mk 2.5 version.

More measurements of rectangular Stax next page ...