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Electrostatic headphones have always been looked at as the Holy Grail of headphone fidelity.

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Some upstart companies have jumped onto the Electrostatic bandwagon in recent years. STAX was there before any of them.

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STAX SR-007A Electrostatic Headphones

I got a chance to get up close and personal with various models of the STAX headphone (or earspeakers as they call them) line back at CanJam NYC earlier this year and each one of them had something interesting to offer. The SR-007A is the latest version of the SR-007 model which was introduced back in 1998 and updated in 2007. STAX sent along the SRM-700T (Tube) and SRM-700S (Solid State) earspeaker amplifiers for me to experience with the headphones and note any differences that I found. This will be my first long term experience with electrostatic headphones, so I am looking forward to comparing them to some dynamic and planar designs that I’m more familiar with to see how they stack up. Look for a full review to appear on the Secrets website soon.

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A native of Toronto Canada, Carlo's interest in audio began at a young age when, unbeknownst to his mother, he started taking apart her numerous transistor radios to see how they worked. This desire for “knowledge through deconstruction” continued through to the family’s 8-track tape player, turntable, headphones, and speakers. Carlo subsequently spent a lot of time in his room. Toronto was a fertile ground for Hi-Fi in the 1970s and 80s and Carlo spent much of his wayward youth hanging out in downtown Toronto stereo shops, listening to all manner of gear and picking the brains of the various store owners. Through that formative experience, Carlo developed an appreciation for good music and good sound reproduction. Also, as a budding graphic artist, the aesthetic aspects of a given piece of gear became increasingly of interest to his eyes. It was at about that time as well that Carlo began purchasing “Audio Magazine” on a regular basis and came to appreciate, in particular, the writing and reviewing of the late Leonard Feldman. Later on, he was also influenced by the writing and observations of the staff at Sound and Vision Canada, helmed at the time by Alan Loft. Carlo graduated from Sheridan College with a degree in Classical Animation and was subsequently employed by Walt Disney Consumer Products for 10 years as a Character Artist and Art Director. Having become disenchanted with Los Angeles, he then decided to strike out on his own. Carlo started his own company and has been freelancing artwork, from his home studio, primarily for the toy and publishing industries since 2001. In 2013, on a bit of a lark, Carlo answered a “Call for Writers” ad from an AV website that he had been regularly reading for about 5 years called Secrets of Home Theater and High Fidelity. He had come to appreciate the website’s combination of subjective impressions along with the objective bench-testing available in several of the reviews. The “B-Team” must have been working that day because by some miracle he was hired as a writer and his first review for the site was published early in 2014. Carlo has been continually writing, editing, traveling, listening, and learning on the company’s behalf ever since. Carlo currently lives in Granville, Ohio with his wife, two sons, and a very old, but chill dachshund.

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