“Imagine a true ultra-high-end system using the finest headphones ever made - electrostatic headphones, ”
— which rivals large physical hi fi systems at upwards of over USD$1M
“at a fraction of their cost...but which also is a desirable objet d'art.
This is the "Ethereal System".
No stranger to creating objects which never existed before, artist/engineer Kostas Metaxas has also managed to marry a Swiss Tourbillon [LePee] clock and offer it as a beautiful abstract moulage mannequin. Like all Metaxas & Sins amplifiers, the CNC-machined “Ethereal” can be meticulously finished in a choice of 10 aluminum colours, or automotive painted finishes.
The CNC's casework also features one of Kostas' patternation called "Geometrika" which creates a visual patina of squares and rectangles recessed into an organic shape - requiring the most advanced 5-axis CNC machine to create it. Other patternations will be offered similar to those used in Kostas' Haute Creation work for S.T. Dupont of Paris.
The solid CNC-machined base encloses the power supply to keep all stray RFI and noise from the delicate low-level signal stages.
Inside the case are two entirely mono ultra-low-noise high voltage purely discrete and utterly balanced amplifiers dedicated to electrostatic headphones running at over 1000V peak-peak.
The Bias voltage of 580V [standard for STAX, SENHEISSER and most electrostatic headphones] is absolutely ripple-free and running at high frequencies to avoid any interference with the delicate audio signals.
The head section can be offered as a "stand" to support the headphones when they aren't in use, or in different configurations including a Tourbillon Clock version, a DAC [Digital to Analogue Converter] or in the near future, a full digital music streamer.
FREQUENCY RESPONSE: DC - 5.0MHz (-3dB)
VOLTAGE OUTPUT: 800VRMS per channel into 100k Ohms with no more than 0.05% T.H.D.
SLEW RATE: Greater than 1000V/us small and large signal
T.H.D.: Less than 0.05% 20Hz-20KHz
I.M.D.(S.M.P.T.E.): Less than 0.05%
SIGNAL/NOISE: -117DBV unweighted input shorted
SENSITIVITY: 60dB
INPUT IMPEDANCE: Balanced at 10kOhms
“Listened to the SR-X9000 driven by the Metaxas & Sins headphone amp in Florida last weekend.
Hans down the best I've ever heard the SR-X9000. I would even go as far as to say it was one of the best sounds I've ever heard in my life.”
CANJAM USA