Picked up my SR-009 and WOO WEE energiser today. Was going to wait 'til my birthday in a few weeks but screw that. Hooked everything up and have listened to a bunch of tracks to test the thing. Definitely a very different sound that I'm used to, especially coming off from my HD800. Very, very detailed and very crisp. A very forward sound that'll take some getting used to but they have an eerie almost magical quality to them. Don't think I've ever heard recordings that I'm familiar with sound like this before.Very, very interesting thus far.
Picked up my SR-009 and WOO WEE energiser today. Was going to wait 'til my birthday in a few weeks but screw that. Hooked everything up and have listened to a bunch of tracks to test the thing. Definitely a very different sound that I'm used to, especially coming off from my HD800. Very, very detailed and very crisp. A very forward sound that'll take some getting used to but they have an eerie almost magical quality to them. Don't think I've ever heard recordings that I'm familiar with sound like this before.Very, very interesting thus far.
Don't want to be negative, but be very careful using the Woo Wee, it has popped up various forums as having fried the HPs attached to them. Did around and you will find the posts.
Don't want to be negative, but be very careful using the Woo Wee, it has popped up various forums as having fried the HPs attached to them. Did around and you will find the posts.
Could you link those posts? When I researched the WEE I couldn't find anything negative about it and saw a number of users and professional reviewers suggesting it as a viable alternative. Surely WOO wouldn't sell a defective product. The thing seems really well made.
The woo is like every other single transformer box out there. There is no protection of any kind.
Drive it with an amplifier that is too powerful (and that is fairly easy) and it will produce voltage swings well in excess of the 2320 VPPSS that the headphones can handle.
The woo is like every other single transformer box out there. There is no protection of any kind.
Drive it with an amplifier that is too powerful (and that is fairly easy) and it will produce voltage swings well in excess of the 2320 VPPSS that the headphones can handle.
Thanks for the reply. I'm using a Densen B-150. Below are the specs:
2 x 100W into 8ohm/200W into 4ohm. 750 VA power supply size. 130,000 uf storage capacity.
Should I trade in the Woo WEE for something like the Stax SRM-007T MK2? I'm really, really loathe to spend anymore money than I already have but I don't want to damage the 009.
So, on the other web site an MSB engineer posted some info on their amp. The power transistors are attached to the heat-sink on the back side of the board, it does have a regulated supply, and power consumption is about 60 watts, which is lower than the Carbon, and definitely lower than the BHSE or DIY T2 even if you leave out the consumption of the filament supplies for the latter two. Distortion is said to be 0.02% at 440Vrms. Freq response at 100 Vrms out is +/- 0.8 dB dB from 5 Hz to 20 kHz driving one SR009. Just as an example, my SRX Plus is +/1 0.1 dB from below 10 Hz to 40 kHz at 100 Vrms out into a 100 pf cap load despite its cap coupling between input and output sections.
Could you link those posts? When I researched the WEE I couldn't find anything negative about it and saw a number of users and professional reviewers suggesting it as a viable alternative. Surely WOO wouldn't sell a defective product. The thing seems really well made.
No personal experience, but the other issue that has been reported is the the HV bias supply in some samples doesn't have a 5 megohm protective resistor after the last cap. This can lead to the cap discharging into the diaphragm and damaging it.
Users who own gear have as valued an opinion on how it sounds, and the ones on here who post and HAVE heard it are obvious. Plenty of those who post opinions without hearing stuff, here and at all the forums. Just find the posts that matter.
Thanks for the reply. I'm using a Densen B-150. Below are the specs:
2 x 100W into 8ohm/200W into 4ohm. 750 VA power supply size. 130,000 uf storage capacity.
Should I trade in the Woo WEE for something like the Stax SRM-007T MK2? I'm really, really loathe to spend anymore money than I already have but I don't want to damage the 009.
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