i opened it up to check everything was as described by the seller, black gate caps, upgrade resistors, teflon sockets, and all the upgrade stuff that is no longer offered by woo audio, and it all looked so awesome and really neat inside, tho there isn't much stuff inside as in some other amps, which is good, cos less is more, right? i like it simple
it originally retailed for ~2k$ with stock tubes, so i thought i got a nice price on it, well at least until i realized i have spent well over 2k$ including the upgrade tubes i got even before the amp shipped
the good thing is that it sounds nice tubey hot, i read comments it isn't the tubiest tube amp but for me coming from ss it's a very nice new experience
when i turn it on, while it's initially warming up, i can here the sound of the tube plates settling coming from the headphones, i guess that's the famous microphonics
also the 20+ pounds construction is really nice
EDIT: why do people use ss for hi-fi music reproduction? because of specs? surly not because of the sound XD new tube convert here !
EDIT2: and that's coming from the sony mdr-1r pairing, i'm having a blast, these cans have potential beyond any of my wildest previous suspicions