Headphone Heights: RE: My headphone system (too long...) by sisterray

All my listening is via electrostatic headphones. It's one system with three headphone options (STAX SR-407 & SR-507 & Koss ESP-950). They currently plug into a STAX SRM-006tA tube/hybrid amp/energizer. (I have a solid state STAX amp/energizer in storage.) It's fed by an Emotiva XPS-1 phono pre & U-Turn Orbit Basic turntable. The digital side is taken care by a Schiit Bitfrost DAC & Onkyo CD player (used mostly as a transport). I also have a cheap Sony player for SACDs. I almost forgot to mention my Schiit Loki Max equalizer. Sources are currently "manually" switched. (I'm in the middle of a rewire.)

Naturalness, speed, resolution, and detail are in spades with this system. I'm very happy with it. I want to make several tweaks, but the concept works very well. Future changes may include: a better table; possibly a transport; XLR cables; a better SACD player; and, a shakeup in the headphone & amp/energizer lineups.

I got my first STAX pair in 2018. Ever since, I've been sold on electrostatics. I can't imagine music listening any other way. I tried speakers again several months ago & was largely let down. Excellent sound, but I missed the detail retrieval of the STAX. It was a good system, but I'm slowly selling it off on the AA Trader to fund the above-mentioned tweaks.