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The WooAudio GES sure looks promising.
At $1250 its most probably hard to beat when it comes to sound quality for the money.

I am tempted to order a black one. But will wait for the first review...

The 006t can be made better with some mods and tube rolling but the limited space makes it hard. The Woo looks like a great amp and with the right parts it should be close to the big amps for a much lower price.

If the Woo has some positive reviews ,I know I will be getting one . Its at a good price point and build quality looks stellar. And Jack Woo is willing to customize it a bit as well. Black looks great to me.

HeadAmp is still making the KGSS & KGSS DX . But will be offering a special edition Blue Hawaii at a price around $3500. Only 10 units will be built.

Audiod -I say go for the OII and don't look back. If the amp situation is only temporary ,then do it.(you know you want to )

Word. And, damn proud of it.

Agree. Always spring for the speaker/headphones first; the rest of your system can always catch up, but even the best amp will be limited by the transducer.

The Woo sounds very positive, indeed. The special BH does too, but maybe a bit too pricey for me.

Thanks so much for your valuable advise.

My first inclination was to go for the Omega 2’s first.
I may also sell my Koss and AKG phones and put in an order for the Woo.

AudioD

I suspect that I may have ordered the first Woo GES amp at headfi, and thereby apparently started a trend. I'm glad to have done so, and I urged Jack Wu to take my amp (even prior to its delivery to me) to the National Meet in San Jose, in order to let others try it, and post their observations about it. I've previously bought a McAlister EA-4, and brought it to several meets with the intention of letting others try this inexpensive amp., and then post their observations about its performance. A thing that I like about the McAlister electrostat amps., the Woo electrostat amps, the ES-1, etc., is that they are continually available for purchanse. But, HeadAmp seems to repeatedly make limited edition amps (e.g., the Aristaeus), which IMO is an undesirable practice, since there seems little point in putting much effort into reviewing amps that cease being available for purchase. What's the point of producing limited edition amps? Is it merely to make them status symbols, primarily due to their exclusivity?

Does the SRM-007tII have a normal bias output? Some 007t had 3 pro only outputs and some had 2 pro only and 1 normal bias.

I think that my SR-Lambda sounded much better out of the 007t than my normal bias SRM-1/MK-2. Out of the 007t I thought that SR-Lambda>HE60>007 but I'm totally nuts and no one agrees with me. What I think everyone can agree upon is that 006t + 404 = Where's the beef?

the SRM-007TII -2 Pro Bias outputs

Not nuts , you just maybe prefer a bright sound signature. (ok maybe a little nutty)

Your not nuts but you really like bright sounding phones. I really like the the SR-Lambda ,so much in fact I just bought another one , but they can't compete with the big dogs. The 007t is a great amp to drive them and the HE60 as well.

I think they finally dropped it in 2004. It didn't make a whole lot of sense to continue with the Normal system because it confused the hell out of new customers. There are actually many versions of the 007t depending on what the distributors ordered but it's mostly down to the color, number of sockets and whether they have external voltage switches or not. There are also some internal changes but nothing major.

I guess I'm just that little bit more special

New toy on the way The waiting is the hardest part.

You sir, have a sickness...