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Stax SRM-D10 II

HEADPHONES Headphone Amplifier of the Year

This may seem a very particular product for a particular purpose, and that is true — a headphone amplifier which powers specifically electrostatic headphones, most likely Stax’s own ‘earspeakers’.

But it is several things beyond that. You can feed it, as

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