I still maintain the "blows out of the water" assessment lol.
is still working as a dac your first gen? Mine, and several other users had dac issues with first gen, it is not recognized by pc. so, we use just the amp section with another dac in the chain. the dac itself was faulty, and woo asked 500 euro to replace it with second gen. after this experience with woo I will never buy one.
I don't think there is a way to have a bluetooth receiver into wa7 usb in and use it as a dac and an amplif. You can find a cable or an adapter that has ( I hope is the same in english ) an usb mother on one side and stick the bluetooth adapter in, but I don't think it will work ( please tell me if it works ). I found this, it's romanian language, but you can make an idea
Adaptor OTG USB B mother- USB A father https://www.emag.ro/adaptor-otg-usb...&X-Section=search&X-MB=0&X-Search-Action=view
But if you want to just use the wa7 amplif you will need a bluetooth adapter that has line out ( something as Avantree AS70) and use a cable to wa7 line in.
If you want to have bluetooth out from wa7 you have to buy a bluetooth adapter that has 3.5 jack (Avantree CK210, just an example). In that case you can use wa7 as a dac and amplif.
As for tv, a bluetooth transmiter for the tv and a bluetooh receiver with line out for wa7 ( as wa7 has just line in with 2 rca), but again, you will use wa7 just as an amplif ( as I do since my wa7 gen 1 dac section is dead for several years).
I haven't seen such a cable yet. Just to usb A. But you can buy the adapter( is very cheap and I'm sure it can be found in every country) . Usb B is a port not in fashion nowdays. Most producers switched to usb c (I have a fiio bta30 pro that I use as a dac between pc and wa7 gen1 with a better dac chipset and linked with my pc via usb c). Do you want to plug the phone in the wa7 usb port? I used a phone just once, but it was connected via line in and it worked.
^^ This has not been my experience - even with items which I purchased secondhand.
well, good for you.You were lucky. I have gen 1 wa7, bought it brand new and I loved it. After one and a half year ( still under waranty I recall ) my pc did not recognized it. Checked on several pc. Checked several usb cables. The same issue. Asked the shop from where I've bought it. They told me the dac is faulty and woo asked for 500 euro to replace the dac with a second gen dac, this was half the price of a brand new wa7 gen 2. Asked woo over email, the same answer. They knew that the dac was faulty, I was not the only one (is an entire thread on this blog ) with that issue. They gave the same answer to everybody. In my opinion, when you, as a serious company knew about a faulty product, you recall and replace it for free. I have a fiio player, that was faulty ( not in the way that doesn't worked, but it has a suspicios sound from time to time) and they replace it the next day, same with a pair of iem. Same with sennheiser. At sennheiser, the man that did the phones quality inspection in germany called next morning and asked me about the problem. They had already talked with the shop owner, to replace the phones. Free of charge. The phones were more expensive than the wa7.^^ This has not been my experience - even with items which I purchased secondhand.
My first gen DAC still works but it is pretty poor DAC. I just use the amp fed from an external DAC. That works very nicely.
I just saw one in the classifieds recently for a decent price.
Hm, what was the aforementioned decent price? I could be convinced to upgrade now that I've gotten an external DAC
Upgrade what? Don't you have the gen3?
