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?