I pulled out my Stax electric earspeakers from the media cabinet this afternoon fully intending to photograph and then throw them up on eBay. They seem to be going. from $125-200, so that’s not just a little walking-around money.
Out of curiosity—since I’ve been listening to so many different types of headphones lately—I went ahead and hooked them up to my amp and took a listen. Wouldn’t you know, they sound pretty damn good; definitely as good as anything else I’ve been auditioning over the past few years.
I think the reason I stopped using them was because they were such fidgety, specialized cans that require the intermediate energizer box connected to an amp’s speaker outputs in order to work. In other words, they couldn’t be used with any of my portable devices and as those became increasingly important in my life, being tied to one location was unacceptable.
That being said, for those rare instances when I do want to listen in the living room privately, I’ve decided to hold on to them and keep ’em connected. They sound much better than I remembered and certainly match—if not slightly exceed—any of the other headphones I’ve been using over the past several years.
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