Stax

For the record company, see Stax Records. StAX is also an acronym for Streaming API for XML (a Java based API for pull-parsing XML).

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Stax Ltd. is a Japanese company that makes high end audio equipment. Stax is best known for their electrostatic and electret headphones, called "ear speakers." Electrostatic headphones work just like electrostatic loudspeakers, yet on a smaller scale. To reduce costs, Stax made a line of Electret headphones, which are often confused for their better known electrostatic headphones, but which work on a different principle.

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Stax is also a Magic the Gathering deck. The naming can be considered to be derived from one of a number of places. The first is a reference to a classic card in the deck, Smokestack. The second is an anagram of an acronym for the phrase "The $4,000 Solution" or "T$4KS" to "$T4KS". This phrase came about because Stax was considered to be a solution to the other popular magic decks that were around when it was concieved and costs roughly four thousand dollars to acquire the cards in the decklist. Lastly, this deck uses several key cards and abuses an artifact of the game known as the Stack. The deck is based around heavy artifact acceleration and extremely powerful artifact control cards, aiming to win with one of many conditions (depending on the deck).

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High end audio: High-end audio equipment is created to be the best, regardless of what it might turn out to cost. High-end audio equipment can be extremely expensive. People who buy this type of equipment are sometimes called audiophiles....

Electrostatic: REDIRECT Electrostatics...

Electrostatic loudspeaker: Electrostatic loudspeakers use a thin flat diaphragm usually consisting of a plastic sheet impregnated with a conductive material such as graphite sandwiched between two electrically conductive grids, with a small air gap between the diaphragm and grids....

Stax related Images and Photos (experimental)

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Booker T. & the MGs with the Mar-Keys - Stax Instrumentals