I feel like Stax has sometimes thrown out the baby with the bathwater here in the effort to pursue ultimate detail. A big reason for this is Sajeev’s decision to use a lower tensioned diaphragm that isn’t trying to be 1 atom thick. The perceived impact is in the same ballpark as the HD600, not losing out much in comparison. Sajeev made the decision to not include dust covers, and I believe that this may have contributed to the great openness and natural tonality that I hear.Ī pleasantly unique trait about the Hives is the fact that these actually have bass with real impact.
It is superior to the Sennheisers in this regard.
The imaging is also very nice and clear in these headphones. Listening to acoustic instruments in an expansive environment such as symphonic strings is a great pleasure due to this openness. However, it is not overly exaggerated and is in tasteful proportion to the rest of the FR. The high treble is very open and sparkly, a common strength of estats. While not as forward as the HD650 here, the feeling of smoothness is similar. Tonally, I can’t hear that very slight nasal quality that HD600 has around the presence region. There are no painful hot spots of brightness (I’m not the most sensitive, but I can’t tolerate Beyer treble), and there is even a pleasant warmth in the sound that reminds me of the HD650. I don’t have measurement equipment, but they sound extremely even through the FR. These headphones are tonally closest to the HD600 out of the headphones I own. I had that Stax amp being unused, so I made the choice to give Sajeev’s headphones a chance. I have previously owned the ESP950, so I knew what to expect from them. I decided to step into the estat game again with a “budget” model, and the choice was between the Hives and the Koss ESP95X. I have previously owned the HD800 and various Stax headphones (007mk2, NB Lambda, L700). Headphones I own include HD600 and 650, Verum 1, Focal Elex. Comparisons to non-stat headphones use an Asgard 3. My setup is Bifrost Multibit (1st Gen)->Stax SRM-323S->Nectar Hive. I will compare to the HD600/650 a lot, since they are a great benchmark that most people have heard or own. It’s not going to be very technical or specific, but maybe it will help someone. Here is my attempt at a general impressions review. Here is an amp study I did comparing the Nectar 1.0, to the Bottlehead, to the SRM1/MK2 if anyone is interested. Most comments are there just to mock rather than educate or provide technical reasoning. There are other emphatic statements given with no evidence that I don't agree with. I wish I still had my srm252s so that I can measure it with the AP515. They then state, based on their circuit analysis skills that it's going to be worse than a srm252s.
BEST SMOOTH SOUND ON U HE HIVE PRO
Even the ifi audio pro iesl amp that has can go up to 640V.
Īs far as the magnitude, the bias is capable of -645V which works well with my headphone gap, and it can be dialed down with resistor dividers to whatever voltage is needed, even the blue hawaii can deliver up to 650V and be dialed down! But some on there talk about it in away that implies that it is very high and can't be dialed down, mostly for some kind of comedic effect that ignores facts. If anything a negative bias is better because it will repel ionized dust. So, it does work and + vs - bias shouldn't really make any difference. Seems like a very vague statement, but I've built many of these amps (maybe 7 or so?) and they worked the first time every time, and others have built it as well. They also state "it's been tried before, and never works". But rather either neutral or equally likely to be + or. There is no information I can find that says dust is typically positively charged. Dust can either be neutral, positive or negative. From my research, ionizers negatively charge dust so that they will get out of the air and clump to grounded surfaces, so if anything the negative bias should repel dust. However I don't see any reasoning behind this. Such as using a negative bias "bad things are going to happen" while pushed on what those bad things are, KG clarified that it would collect dust. Click to expand.They have shit on the amp.Īt first it was a bunch of emphatic statements without any supporting reasoning.
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