kazsud
1000+ Head-Fier
WA7 sounds like a damn good price/performance dac/amp contender for HD800.. Should I abandon my plan of getting the WA2 and get the WA7 instead?
I would go w/ the Wa2. It sound way more solid compared to the Wa7.
WA7 sounds like a damn good price/performance dac/amp contender for HD800.. Should I abandon my plan of getting the WA2 and get the WA7 instead?
Yep the gold plated ones.
How is the WA5 for the HD800?
Yep the gold plated ones.
How is the WA5 for the HD800?
The hd800 + Wa5 is incredible.
WA7 sounds like a damn good price/performance dac/amp contender for HD800.. Should I abandon my plan of getting the WA2 and get the WA7 instead?
Here is the deal. I have both amps and all upgraded tubes for all. The wa22 is just the best with headphones. Not so with iems . And not for the HE6. I bought the WA5 for the HE6.
Hands down the 22 beats with the hd800. But the wa7 has it all in one. And sounds good with everything. So looking for -a two in one the wa7 is it. And you can use a seperate dac as well .
But the only way to use the wa22 is in balanced mode. It makes a big difference .
Al
Here is the deal. I have both amps and all upgraded tubes for all. The wa22 is just the best with headphones. Not so with iems . And not for the HE6. I bought the WA5 for the HE6.
Hands down the 22 beats with the hd800. But the wa7 has it all in one. And sounds good with everything. So looking for -a two in one the wa7 is it. And you can use a seperate dac as well .
But the only way to use the wa22 is in balanced mode. It makes a big difference .
Al
This just shows how much subjectivity matters. Koiloco has WA22 running with balanced HD800 as well, yet he still shares his head time with the HE-500 and Emotiva MiniX. I have the HE-500 and MiniX as well, yet I haven't touched it in weeks, and I'm running the HD800 through merely a Crack.
I guess you use it in balanced mode, correct?
Yes.
As you know, I bought a turntable recently that of course only has RCA out. Hooking up the TT to WA22's unbalanced input directly = not so good. For now, I have to route the TT's USB output through my computer => DAC=> WA22's balanced input when listening to vinyl. However, this chain is not 100% analog. I have purchased a preamp that has balanced out and phono in so I can do TT => pre-amp=> WA22. The preamp is coming next Monday.
I was seriously considering selling the WA22 and go for either WA2 or WA6SE to avoid the balanced requirement of the WA22 but I really love the WA22/HD800 combo therefore I went the preamp route instead. The preamp will give me much flexibility in routing signal from computer and my other sources as well.
http://www.parasound.com/vintage/p3.php
They have a newer model P5 but I got too good of a deal on the P3 to pass it up.
How is the WA5 in compare to the WA22?