Rizlaw
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Okay, it just got here and has been running for about 6 hours now...
i am getting STATIC/POPPING NOISES on the RIGHT CHANNEL
even when the song is playing or the volume is turned all the way down,
the static is THERE every few minutes or so....
also, the LEFT CHANNEL seems to be STRONGER than the right channel,
like there's MORE BASS on the left side of my headphones....
i switched around the RCA's in the back of the WA2 (red to white, white to red) to see if maybe it was
coming from my SOURCE (macair, apogee one) and the RIGHT CHANNEL
was still weak.
LAmitchell,
I just noticed your post. It looks like you received your WA2 at the same time I received mine 12/4/10) and it looks like we have similar issues. In my case, the biggest problem was that the preamp left channel output was significantly lower in volume than the right. So much so, that it sounded "off" when using the WA2 as a preamp only through my powered speakers. The right channel totally overpowered the left. I also heard two loud pops from the right channel in my headphones during the first two hours of use, but none thereafter. It's been dead quite. I'm not happy that I have to turn my DACT volume control up to 1 or 2 o'clock to get a reasonable (not loud) volume level, but Jack says it's normal.
I immediately contacted Jack. He had me swap tubes from left to right and change cables. The channel imbalance persisted. Jack asked me to take a photo of the wiring, I did and he said he saw nothing wrong. In the end, I had to return the amp to him for examination and repair.
While my WA2 is gone, I made an adapter to run my LCD-2s off the speaker outputs of my Classe CAP-2100 SS integrated amp. It works great and is totally silent.
I'm glad to see you're keeping your amp.