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₹ 3,301
₹ 2,670
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15.99%
₹ 8,305
₹ 4,746
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15.99%
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₹ 6,210
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15.99%
₹ 4,400
₹ 9,193
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15.99%
₹ 3,427
₹ 12,250
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₹ 12,258
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₹ 1,934
₹ 1,555
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Low Cost EMI
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₹ 3,094
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15%
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₹ 4,447
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15%
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₹ 5,817
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16%
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₹ 2,886
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₹ 4,749
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16%
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₹ 5,421
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₹ 8,605
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₹ 11,457
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₹ 1,522
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14%
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₹ 2,886
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14%
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₹ 4,146
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Why STAX is Special
Designed in Japan
Established & Reputed
Trust us, our reputation in the audio world speaks for itself!
This headphone or gear comes from a well-respected brand known for its high-quality audio equipment, so you can be confident in your purchase.
If you see a product marked as “🎖️ Established & Reputed”, it means you're getting a top-tier device from a brand that's earned its stripes in the audio industry.
Revered by Audiophiles
Audiophiles can be really picky and tough to impress and if the audiophile community says something sounds good, you can bet it's great!
This headphone or gear has gained recognition and admiration from audiophiles, who are known for their discerning taste in high-fidelity audio. They appreciate its precision, attention to detail and its ability to deliver an immersive sonic experience.
If you see a product marked as "🙌🏻 Revered by Audiophiles", it means that it meets the highest standards of sound quality and performance, making it a top choice for anyone who values exceptional audio experiences.
Born in 1938
Why we love this Headphone
Premium Economy
Sensible spending and class above in quality.
This headphone or gear offers top-notch sound and performance without much impact on your pocket, promising a delightful experience that exceeds your expectations at an economical price point.
If you see a product marked as “💎 Premium Economy," it indicates that you're getting a high-quality audio product with exceptional sound clarity and reliable performance, all at a budget-friendly price.
For Enthusiasts on a Budget
We are here to help you find the best bang for your buck.
This headphone or gear is made for all passionate hobbyists who want top-notch gear without breaking the bank.
If you see a product marked as “🪴 For Enthusiasts on a Budget”, get ready to indulge in your music with high-quality, affordable products that keep your wallet happy and your enthusiasm alive!
For Audiophiles at Home
Cause music hit differently when you are in your own space.
This headphone or gear is perfect for those who demand exceptional sound quality in their personal sanctuary.
If you see products marked as “🏠 For Audiophiles at Home”, get ready to transform your living space into an audiophile's paradise, with rich, immersive sound that makes every listening session a masterpiece.
Upgradeable Cable
Not happy with your current cable? Swap it out!
If you're searching for an in-ear monitor with a detachable design, these IEMs fit the bill.
If you see an IEM marked with "🔌 Upgradeable Cable," it means it comes with a detachable cable. You can easily swap or upgrade the cable, allowing for customization or maintenance whenever you desire.
Why it Sounds Amazing
Electrostatic Driver
When you need nothing but the best for your music.
This headphone or gear features an electrostatic driver, comprising a thin, electrically charged diaphragm placed between two conductive plates (stators).
If you see a product marked with “🔈 Electrostatic Driver", it indicates that you're in for an extraordinary audio treat, delivering exceptional sound quality with ultra-high resolution and stunning detail in your music.
Flat Sound Signature
For those on a quest to try and hear the “purest” audio possible.
This headphone or gear offers an neutral, uncoloured audio profile, perfect for purists who crave accuracy.
If you see products marked as “📏 Flat Sound Signature”, you’re in for a true-to-life listening experience, hearing your music exactly as it was recorded, without any artificial boosts or tweaks.
Ultra-Wide Sound Stage
Do you wish to bring the concert hall to your ears?
This headphone or gear offers an ultra-wide soundstage, giving your music a spacious and immersive feel as if you're right there in the middle of a live performance.
If you see a product marked with "😳 Ultra-Wide Soundstage," it means this product is designed to deliver expansive audio, making your listening experience feel grand and enveloping, perfect for those who love a broad and detailed sound.
Bright & Sparkly Highs
Who says Treble can’t be done right.
This headphone or gear shines the best for its ability to deliver crisp, clear, and shimmering high frequencies that stands out.
If you see products marked as “✨ Bright & Sparkly Highs”, you’re in for an auditory treat, enjoying every cymbal, note, and melody with unparalleled clarity and brilliance.
Crisp Vocals & Instruments
Vocals and Instruments sound too good, its like a warm hug.
This headphone or gear excels at delivering clear, clean vocals and instruments, making every sound pop.
If you see products marked as “🍿 Crisp Vocals & Instruments”, prepare for an audio experience where every word and note is perfectly articulated, letting you enjoy your music with pristine clarity and detail.
Perfect to Analyse Music
Delve deeper into the Bassline, Riffs and Harmonies.
This headphone or gear is designed for those who dive deep into the nuances of sound, offering precision for music analysis.
If you see products marked as “🔍 Perfect to Analyse Music”, get ready to dissect every beat, note, and harmony with exceptional clarity, making it an ideal tool for musicians, producers, and audiophiles who crave detailed insights into their music.
Needs Amplification
I need more power to thrive.
This headphone or gear shines brightest with a bit of extra power. It’s designed to deliver top-notch performance when paired with an amplifier, giving you that full, rich sound you crave.
If you see a product marked as "🚂 Needs Amplification", it means this device is built to excel with an amp, ensuring you get the most out of your music with enhanced volume and clarity. Perfect for audiophiles who love their sound big and bold.
Designed in
Japan
Flat Sound Signature
A Flat sound signature offers an accurate presentation of sounds without adding colour to your music. Simply put, this sound signature presents audio without boosting any frequencies. As a result, it’s the most natural-sounding signature and provides the closest reproduction of how a track was recorded and produced. Due to their accurate sound reproduction, flat sound signature headphones are preferred by Music professionals, Sound Engineers and used in professional studios for mixing and mastering music tracks and are also loved by audiophiles for immersive listening sessions. You can listen to Classical, Rock, Jazz, Blues, Folk & possibly every genre in music.
Ideal for Audiophiles
These headphones are designed for discerning music lovers. If you are someone who cares about audio quality "deeply," you'll want a pair of headphones like these.
You can expect them to present a refined listening experience. The audio quality exhibited by these headphones is a beautiful mix of musicality, technical brilliance and high precision.
These headphones deliver a spacious and open soundstage with utmost clarity and detail. Delve into pure sonic bliss with these headphones!
Ideal for
Indoor Use
Open-Back Design
Headphones with an open-back design, allow air to pass through the earcups. This means that Open-Backs do not block any noise from around you, as closed-backs do, and music being heard will also leak outside to people around you. So they can only be heard in a quiet environment.
However, Open-back headphones do sound more natural and open. Open-back headphones create a feeling of space, presenting audio as if you are sitting at a live concert. Audiophiles swear by open-back headphones, and they sound quite different to closed-backs.
These headphones are perfect for critical listening sessions, mixing and mastering music. They have an accurate soundstage presentation and precise imaging.
Electrostatic Drivers
Electrostatic drivers use the concept of static electricity (i.e., no moving charges) to create an electric field, as opposed to drivers that work by electromagnetic force. These drivers are capable of capturing even the minutest details in your recordings. Electrostatic drivers are known for lending excellent details, treble extension and "wide" frequency response.
Needs Amplification
Headphones and IEMs require a certain level of power to sound their best and work at their full potential. When your headphones or IEMs are underpowered, they can sound thin or muffled.
Amplifiers are required to provide adequate power to your headphone or IEMs to perform at their best. Simply put, amplifiers allow a weak audio signal to be boosted to a powerful one.
To put it into perspective, devices such as your phones and laptops come with an amplifier, but they offer very limited output power. This output may not be sufficient to power headphones and IEMs to shine at their best. This is where a dedicated amplifier is required to deliver adequate power to hear your music in all its glory.
DESCRIPTION
PERFECTION JUST GOT AN UPGRADE!
STAX introduced its initial SR-Lambda series over 36 years ago. The SR-L500MK2 has taken the excellent sound of the original series and combined it with a newly designed enclosure. The STAX SR-L500MK2 is an advanced Earspeaker featuring "tough" stainless fixed electrodes and a hand-selected thin-film diaphragm. Expect the perfect balance of delicate treble, soothing mids and deep bass.
DESIGNED FOR LONG LISTENING SESSIONS
Comfort and extended listening sessions were taken into consideration when designing the SR-L500MK2. You can alter the height of the head pad using the 10-click slider mechanism on the headband (ARC). The slider ensures that it remains in place after being changed, obviating the need to adjust the height. The high-grade synthetic leather used to make the soft handcrafted earpads enhances both the sound quality and comfort.
CABLES THAT ARE DESIGNED FOR LOSSLESS SIGNAL TRANSMISSION
The detachable cable uses HiFC™ (High-Performance Pure Copper) wires developed by Hitachi. These wires have the same sonic characteristics as the SR-009 and SR-L500's 6N high-purity 99.99999% copper wires. The cable is designed in a wide, flat format to reduce the capacitance between each wire and drive the SR-L500MK2 more effectively.
SPECS
FREQUENCY RESPONSE | 7 - 41,000 Hz |
IMPEDANCE | 145k Ω (including cable, at 10kHz) |
SOUND PRESSURE SENSITIVITY | 101dB / 100V r.m.s. 1 kHz |
BIAS VOLTAGE | 580V DC |
MAXIMUM SOUND PRESSURE LEVEL | 118dB / 400Hz |
ELECTROSTATIC CAPACITANCE | 110pF (including cable) |
LEFT & RIGHT CHANNEL 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. |
CABLE | HiFC Parallel 6-Strand, Low-Capacity Special Wide Copper Cable, 2.5m Full Length |
TYPE | Push-Pull Open Back Oval Electrostatic Earspeaker Headphone |
EAR PADS | High quality synthetic leather |
CABLE | HiFC parallel 6-strand, low-capacity special wide copper cable, 2.5m full length |
WEIGHT | 0.75lb without cable / 1lb with cable |
BOX CONTENTS | 1. STAX SR-L500MK2 |
2. Instruction Manual |
OTHER DETAILS
GENERIC NAME | Headphone |
IMPORTER DETAILS | Importers Name: Ferrari Video Address: 63/18, 1st Main Road, Gandhi Nagar, Chennai - 600020 Contact No: 044-24420733 |
NET QUANTITY | 1 |
MANUFACTURER DETAILS | Name: Edifier International Limited Address: Room 2101, 21st floor, The L. Plaza, 367-375 Queen's Road Central, Hong Kong |
PACKAGE CONTENTS | STAX SR-L500MK2 Instruction Manual |
User Manual | SR-L500MK2
Electrostatic Open-Back Earspeaker
|
FAQs
What is the warranty period on the STAX SR-L500MK2?
STAX SR-L500MK2 offers a 1 year warranty. If you need to claim warranty, you can contact us. We are quite friendly people, just sayin. You can read more about warranty here.
How does the STAX SR-L500MK2 sound?
It delivers a clear, transparent and balanced sound with delicate highs, soothing mids and deep bass.
What is the impedance on the STAX SR-L500MK2?
The STAX SR-L500MK2 has an impedance of 145kΩ.
What is the cable like on STAX SR-L500MK2?
The STAX SR-L500MK2 comes with OFC parallel 6-strand cables.
Can I use the STAX SR-L500MK2 with my smartphone?
Nope, you can't. You will need a separate energiser to power these headphones.
What do 'Impedance' and 'Ohms' mean?
Impedance is the so-called alternating-current resistance that headphones have under specific standard conditions. On devices with low output impedance, headphones are the louder, the lower their impedance is. In principle, we recommend that you choose headphones with low impedance for use on devices that are operated by battery/rechargeable battery (i.e. most portable devices such as smartphones, tablet computers but also notebooks). You can distinguish between high and low impedance. Usually, the gradations 18 Ω, 32 Ω, and 80 Ω are used in the low range. In the high range, 250 Ω are common. If you want to get the most out of your system (and it has the power to do so), choose a model with 600 Ω.
PERFECTION JUST GOT AN UPGRADE!
STAX introduced its initial SR-Lambda series over 36 years ago. The SR-L500MK2 has taken the excellent sound of the original series and combined it with a newly designed enclosure. The STAX SR-L500MK2 is an advanced Earspeaker featuring "tough" stainless fixed electrodes and a hand-selected thin-film diaphragm. Expect the perfect balance of delicate treble, soothing mids and deep bass.
DESIGNED FOR LONG LISTENING SESSIONS
Comfort and extended listening sessions were taken into consideration when designing the SR-L500MK2. You can alter the height of the head pad using the 10-click slider mechanism on the headband (ARC). The slider ensures that it remains in place after being changed, obviating the need to adjust the height. The high-grade synthetic leather used to make the soft handcrafted earpads enhances both the sound quality and comfort.
CABLES THAT ARE DESIGNED FOR LOSSLESS SIGNAL TRANSMISSION
The detachable cable uses HiFC™ (High-Performance Pure Copper) wires developed by Hitachi. These wires have the same sonic characteristics as the SR-009 and SR-L500's 6N high-purity 99.99999% copper wires. The cable is designed in a wide, flat format to reduce the capacitance between each wire and drive the SR-L500MK2 more effectively.
FREQUENCY RESPONSE | 7 - 41,000 Hz |
IMPEDANCE | 145k Ω (including cable, at 10kHz) |
SOUND PRESSURE SENSITIVITY | 101dB / 100V r.m.s. 1 kHz |
BIAS VOLTAGE | 580V DC |
MAXIMUM SOUND PRESSURE LEVEL | 118dB / 400Hz |
ELECTROSTATIC CAPACITANCE | 110pF (including cable) |
LEFT & RIGHT CHANNEL 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. |
CABLE | HiFC Parallel 6-Strand, Low-Capacity Special Wide Copper Cable, 2.5m Full Length |
TYPE | Push-Pull Open Back Oval Electrostatic Earspeaker Headphone |
EAR PADS | High quality synthetic leather |
CABLE | HiFC parallel 6-strand, low-capacity special wide copper cable, 2.5m full length |
WEIGHT | 0.75lb without cable / 1lb with cable |
BOX CONTENTS | 1. STAX SR-L500MK2 |
2. Instruction Manual |
OTHER DETAILS
GENERIC NAME | Headphone |
IMPORTER DETAILS | Importers Name: Ferrari Video Address: 63/18, 1st Main Road, Gandhi Nagar, Chennai - 600020 Contact No: 044-24420733 |
NET QUANTITY | 1 |
MANUFACTURER DETAILS | Name: Edifier International Limited Address: Room 2101, 21st floor, The L. Plaza, 367-375 Queen's Road Central, Hong Kong |
PACKAGE CONTENTS | STAX SR-L500MK2 Instruction Manual |
User Manual | SR-L500MK2
Electrostatic Open-Back Earspeaker
|
What is the warranty period on the STAX SR-L500MK2?
STAX SR-L500MK2 offers a 1 year warranty. If you need to claim warranty, you can contact us. We are quite friendly people, just sayin. You can read more about warranty here.
How does the STAX SR-L500MK2 sound?
It delivers a clear, transparent and balanced sound with delicate highs, soothing mids and deep bass.
What is the impedance on the STAX SR-L500MK2?
The STAX SR-L500MK2 has an impedance of 145kΩ.
What is the cable like on STAX SR-L500MK2?
The STAX SR-L500MK2 comes with OFC parallel 6-strand cables.
Can I use the STAX SR-L500MK2 with my smartphone?
Nope, you can't. You will need a separate energiser to power these headphones.
What do 'Impedance' and 'Ohms' mean?
Impedance is the so-called alternating-current resistance that headphones have under specific standard conditions. On devices with low output impedance, headphones are the louder, the lower their impedance is. In principle, we recommend that you choose headphones with low impedance for use on devices that are operated by battery/rechargeable battery (i.e. most portable devices such as smartphones, tablet computers but also notebooks). You can distinguish between high and low impedance. Usually, the gradations 18 Ω, 32 Ω, and 80 Ω are used in the low range. In the high range, 250 Ω are common. If you want to get the most out of your system (and it has the power to do so), choose a model with 600 Ω.
Don't sweat it, this
STAX - SR-L500MK2 comes with a 1 Year warranty
from STAX that covers manufacturing defects.
All products featured on Headphone Zone are backed by an original manufacturer's warranty.
Read more about STAX's warranty in India.
Japanese Electrostatic Pioneers From 1938
Explore Collection"The Stax L500mk2 is a very interesting headphone. If you are willing to take amplification needs into account, I would very much recommend these headphones to someone looking to try out electrostatic headphones."
Read More"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."
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What is the warranty period on the STAX SR-L500MK2 and how do I claim warranty?
How does the STAX SR-L500MK2 sound?
What is the impedance on the STAX SR-L500MK2?
What is the cable like on STAX SR-L500MK2?
Can I use the STAX SR-L500MK2 with my smartphone?
What do 'Impedance' and 'Ohms' mean?
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