Ahzari
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thanks for the information, now time to start looking haha..
thanks for the information, now time to start looking haha..
Try look for a vintage Marantz receiver and use the tape loop out to Woo. They are quite good on the phono stage.
Howdy my fellow Woo owners, I have been busy playing with the new iPad and tweaking the MKII upgrade.
One thing I noticed this afternoon when I'm listening to Patricia Barber and Diana Krall, their voice is so live and human sounding after the MKII upgrade. The HD800 just sings out of the WA22 with my flavor set of tubes.
thanks for the information, now time to start looking haha..
Have you listened to a WA5 before?
They might be big, bulkey, brick looking (as you said) and the 300B tubes expensive plus you need two of each kinf of tubes (rectifier, driver and power) but the sound justifies everything. The WA5 IMO blows away any other Woo amplifier with the exeption of the $10,000 monoblock. I even like it better than the WES with the SR009.
When I was buying my amp I tried every single Woo and also I tried the Zana, Pinnacle and Mannley 300B. The WA5-LE suited my taste the best.
May I ask few questions of you two.
What sort of lifespan are you getting out of you tubes? I'm not a 'sit down listening session' person. So I rack up a lot of hours, with gaming, music and all of that.
Did you have to arrange a special space for it. Side by side seems prohibitive, over and under on a shelf? (I used to run multi monitors...now I have too much crap on my desk for that)
Can't say that I've heard a WA5 Variant, the WA2 is my first (currently only) Valve amp, Purchased unheard on a pre-order when I learnt there was a Aussie Distributer (got in on the first shipment yay). Maybe I need to pay a visit the distibuter's street address (Addicted to Audio Melbourne) and may be arrange a listen someday. It doesn't seem to get a lot of talking about in this thread, could be a combination of those various factors (cost, size, questionable spouse acceptance factor).
May I ask few questions of you two.
What sort of lifespan are you getting out of you tubes? I'm not a 'sit down listening session' person. So I rack up a lot of hours, with gaming, music and all of that.
Did you have to arrange a special space for it. Side by side seems prohibitive, over and under on a shelf? (I used to run multi monitors...now I have too much crap on my desk for that)
I had a bit more of squiz to see the costs of various suitable tubes, ranging from the What lol to beard stroking reasonable. But I suppose it always comes back to lifespan. I'm not even sure how I'll fair with the WA2, (Just swapped in some Woo Supplied tubes, But I'll go back to stock to try run those in to the dirt).
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I have had my WA5-LE for 20 months and I have not had any tube issues. I roll driver tubes often to change the sound and rectifiers less often but the EML 300B Mesh have been there since new and still going storng with no issues (knock on wood). I am using the 596 rectifiers which I love and those are $40 to $80 for the pair so not much investment there. You can get very nice NOS 6SN7 for great prices too. I got a pair of RCA 6F8G round plates/black glass for cheap. Other than the 300B cost I would not woory about that.
Regarding shelf space. I have mine side by side at the top of my audio rack so it can fit in a normal shelf designed for a standard 19" wide audio component with room to spare.
Here are some pictures of mine when I just got it. http://www.head-fi.org/t/506402/my-new-woo-audio-wa5-le-the-black-beauty
Any new sources for 1956-57 USAF-596 Rec's?
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