Puppy Stax

[marcusd]

Isn't it amazing bro how simple the design is inside all of that? I mean for dynamic drivers you have wires and diaphragms and screws. In stax you have some cloth and metal and some bolts of electricity to make it all work

[dogears]

Borrowed from wikiphonia

Because the diaphragm has such a low mass, it responds very quickly and precisely to changes in the audio signal. This makes for extremely accurate sound reproduction with superb transient response. The problem with such design is the limited excursion of the diaphragm, therefor to produce sufficient bass electrostatic drivers must have very large radiating surface when compared to dynamic drivers.

[dogears]

Tried a cheap ipod buds>inear adapter buds and it's working great!

[marcusd]

Tried a cheap ipod buds>inear adapter buds and it's working great!

its amazing that the cheap stuff works out to be the best stuff

[dogears]

I'm having eargasms since yesterday with my Cowboy Junkies albums [dogears howls]

[dogears]

Found an A/C adapter for the Puppy, I think I was using this with my iPaq... 5VDC/2A!

Now I can hear more treble energy I get the ground hum when using the Fuze>LOD - nothing that can't be fixed though
I'm really enjoying this as my office desktop earphones

[blackwing]

So the first agenda of the day is to operate on the left driver of Puppy Stax.
Some pics





Using the right driver for reference - that first white paper ring from the left is misplaced and should be somewhere on the middle of the last two 'plates'.
I admire the simplicity of these configuration and even amazes me more how it creates that wonderful bass. As simple as it get, it still gave me the jitters specially when I was assembling them back already.
After assembling, I checked again with a gentle blow on the left nozzle and the plastic sound is not there anymore. Gave it a listen and my jitter was elevated to panic I was hearing that sort of farty sound on the left driver! &^%$#@!
So I just opened it up and rechecked plate-ring by plate-ring.
Reassembled and gave it a go and it was a success. Phew!!! I'm getting old with this sort of operations
Now the sound - psychological or not (I'm a dog after all) - is even better specially the treble.

congrats on the operation, it's just now that i saw this kind of drivers   

[dogears]

Thanks bro. I'm still on the hunt for the most comfortable tips though

[dalethorn]

So there's no danger of damaging the actual driver (thin film?) ?  I hear most of the mfrs. use glue in those assemblies.  Do the Stax use glue?

[dogears]

I don't think I encountered any glue but the white rubbery ring was sort of attached to the driver... there's a slight farty hum on the left driver actually --- but I can live with it. Is there a glue I can use to glue them back? Maybe that will cure the hum.
I'm really grateful to Chief Marcus for letting go of this gem, my type of sound... now my office setup \m/

[marcusd]

I don't think I encountered any glue but the white rubbery ring was sort of attached to the driver... there's a slight farty hum on the left driver actually --- but I can live with it. Is there a glue I can use to glue them back? Maybe that will cure the hum.
I'm really grateful to Chief Marcus for letting go of this gem, my type of sound... now my office setup \m/

Physics was not in my favor lol.. your head is a puppy head lol

[dogears]

The tips you were using were making the sound 'harder'. The stock tips sound more relaxed. It's fun switching tips