Not sure if this has been reported before, but I haven't seen it yet so I am providing my own impressions. I just picked up a Woo Audio WA8 Eclipse to give my IEMs some nice tube sound. The first thing I noticed is that it is a very dark amp especially when using its internal DAC and streaming Tidal via USB from my laptop. Then, I paired it through its 3.5mm input with my Hiby RS6 with its R2R DAC and true 3.5mm line out. This pairing is excellent while maintaining a warm and musical sound signature. The WA8 is a truely transportable tube amp and has that gooey euphonic sound that does a nice job of expanding sound stage and imaging in a 3D manner for my IEMs. When it gave my HD800S a really nice bass response, I decided to see what it could to with my Susvara. I was very surprised that it sounded pretty good. Punchy, full and non compressed. It was much better than I expected especially given its power rating. I wanted to confirm my impressions to make sure I wasn't listening to fool's gold, so I did quite a bit of A/B testing with my normal Susvara set up of Chord Hugo TT2 with M Scaler and Ampsandsound Rockwell. As expected, this full desktop set up was much better giving a fuller and more complete and resolving sound. But, the bass response is a little more punchy with slightly better slam with the WA8. Since the Rockwell is more mids focused, this was not surprising. I then, compared it with my DX300 with AMP12 and the Cayin C9. And, I paired the Susvara directly with the DX300 and RS6. I concluded that on a scale of 1-10 where 1 is horrible and 10 is pure bliss with 5 being minimally acceptable for listening, that the RS6 and DX300 was about 2 due to the lack of power. The DX300 + C9 was a 4.5-5, but sounded very compressed for most tracks making it not listenable, the RS6 + WA8 is about a 6 and the TT2, CMS, Rockwell is 8-8.5. The WA8 sounds decent with most of my music, but at times it lacked fullness and sounded a bit thin. Otherwise, the RS6 + WA8 is the first portable system that I have found that I would be able to reasonable travel with if I wanted listen to my Susvara while on the road. I even A/B tested it with my HE1000v2 and the Sus still sounded better which is unusual with lower power / quality sources. Really happy I picked it up and tried something I would have never done otherwise..
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