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Hi All:

 

Need a little help.  I am going to be expanding my modest system soon.  I would like to base my new amp around the Audeze LCD-2 with a Grado headphone as a second pair.  Both low impedance models.  I listen to headphones about 80% of the time, but would use speakers the rest, so I would like an amp that is primarily a headphone amp but that can also drive a pair of speakers.  I have come up with two canadates: The Woo Audio WA5 and the Decware Mini Torii.  Sources will be a Bryston BDP-1/BDA-1 combo and some sort of turntable.  So...on to the questions.  Is there any other product I should be looking at?  I prefer tube amps, but I will look at anything!  The WA5 is quite a bit more then the Mini Torii, I like that it has the option to drive high impedance phones as well as low...but I'm not sure it's worth the extra money (especially if I go with the parts upgrade).  I listen to all sorts of different music, rock, jazz and classical mostly.  So, what would you do (and why)?