Stax SR-L500 Electrostatic Earspeaker

Stax SR-L500 Electrostatic Earspeaker

Name: Stax SR-L500 Electrostatic Earspeaker
Brand: Stax
SKU: STAXSRL500
Price: 1300.00 NZD
Availability: InStock

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Specifications

Type: Push-Pull Open Back Oval Electrostatic Earspeaker Headphone
Frequency Response: 7 - 41,000Hz
Electrostatic Capacitance: 110pF (including cable)
Impedance: 145k Ω (including cable, at 10kHz)
Sound Pressure Sensitivity: 101dB / 100V r.m.s. 1 kHz
Maximum Sound Pressure: 118dB / 400Hz
Bias Voltage: 580V DC
Left & Right Identification: "L" and "R" indicated on the arc assembly Left channel cable is marked with a solid line. Right channel is marked with a dotted line.
Ear Pads: High Quality Synthetic Leather
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Weight: 0.75lb without cable / 1lb with cable

Headphonesty

The headband (ARC) assembly of the SR-L500 is equipped with 10-click slider mechanism for head pad height adjustment adopted from SR-009 and SR-507. Once adjusted, the slider always maintains its optimal position to make readjustment unnecessary. This enables you to enjoy hours of pleasant music listening with utmost comfort.

High performance pure copper HiFC™ developed by Hitachi employs the core wires. HiFC has various advantages, including similar sonic characteristics as used in SR-009 and SR-L500 6N high purity 99.99999% copper wires. The entire cable are then arranged in a flat, wide format configuration to lower the capacitance between each wires and finished with the most suitable structure to drive the earspeaker. 6NCu high purity 99.99999% copper wires are employed for the core wires, and six silver plated high purity 99.9999% copper wires are arranged for the perimeter. The whole cable uses the conventional wide format parallel structure to lower the capacitance between each wires and finished with the most suitable structure to drive the earspeaker.

New earpad design is carefully hand crafted with high quality synthetic leather for utmost comfort for hours of music enjoyment as well as sound performance.

These absolutely deserve to get more attention, and they even overtake the SR-L700 in certain key areas. They have an excellently-tuned midrange as well as very good resolution all around. All this comes together in a very well-balanced package. Of the electrostatic headphones I’ve heard, these are among the few pairs (possibly the only pair) I’d be genuinely comfortable with as a daily driver.