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From: bks%shiva.Berkeley.EDU@ucbvax.Berkeley.EDU (Brian K. Shiratsuki)
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Subject: Re: The importance of conditioning your line
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Date: 25 Jul 90 23:34:49 GMT
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In article <5268@uwm.edu> chowkwan@aerospace.aero.org writes:

>(OR Enid Lumley triumphant.)

>I recently bought a pair of Stax headphones and used
>my humble Sony C7ESD as direct input to the headphone amp...

>[moving the headphone amp to a different line conditioner bank
> from the cd player improved the sound significantly]

since they were new headphones, is it possible that they needed
some breaking in (ie, did you try going back to the original set
up to see if the sound degraded)?

also, i curious what your impressions were of the various stax
headphones were.

has anyone reading this group built an amplifier/bias supply capable
of driving the stax lambda pro {,signature}?

					brian