Thank you. Keep up the great work 👏🏾 I appreciate the OTL comparison 8:48 I too seek the tubyness, so I purchased a Feliks Euforia

This is awesome! I really like your reviewing and it's so nice to see you do a review of this amp. Your intelligent style means I always learn something, even if I already own what you're reviewing - I ended up buying the demo unit of this amp at CanJam SoCal last year because I loved it so much! Still my favorite tube amp I've ever heard. P.S. - your custom Atrium looks super rad!

thank you for the great review. ~ Mike 🙏🏻

Probably the most desirable headphone amp at this moment in time, and likely for some time to come. A classic in the making.

For that price it better be your “favorite” or what's the point.

Thanks for this Cameron, much appreciated. A comparison against the Feliks Audio Envy Performance Edition would’ve been great though

I think you're confused (and you are further confusing your audience) between SE vs Push-Pull and SE vs Balanced Differential. The first refers to how the power devices are driven the second refers to the total amp stage topology (Balanced differential requiring 2 complete amp stages per channel, one amplifying each side of the waveform). The traditional terminology is what leads to this confusion. It is a confusing subject so there's no need for more of it.. This particular amp just happens to be SE in both ways. You can have a push pull amp with the amp still being SE in terms of its overall topology. In fact this is how most Class A/B amps (tube or solid state) are designed. Please note that it is very rare to see tube based Balanced differential implementations (not uncommon in Solid State amps) due to the difficulty in implementing these especially due to difficulty in perfectly matching the dual amp stages required for each channel.

For 9 grand Amp that thing better blow something else other than just my mind

Great video! I realize that this might be applesoranges, but how would you rank/compare the WA23 to the Wandla stack?

I would love to find out more reasons why things are the way they are in audio such as at 4:25 - I often wondered why so many tube amps are single ended and this makes a lot of sense

The 2A3 is one of the best sounding "power" tubes, if not the best one and as such it shines in single ended topology. It has a flea power but it's perfect for headphones. It is one of these refined tubes where the brand really matters.

What Pre Amp are you using? I have the humble WA3 and it's doing an outstanding job. Can't fault it - drives everything from IEM to planar for an OTL I am impressed.

Owned a few Woo Audio amps and love them. Great team at Woo as well.

Hey Cameron. Kamran here :P Love your reviews. Honest and to the point with no BS. Can ia sk you a general question( though i know it's relative). I have got focal clear, hifiman xs and HE6se. I like those headphones but i am little treble sensitive. I do listen to rock, pop and other Genres. I am ready to upgrade. Under $2k what would you reckon i should try? My cource for now is bifrost 2OG and Burson soloist 3xp. plzzz

🙏🏾 Can you please do a head-to-head vs a flagship OTL like the Feliks Euforia. It would be tubular dude 🤙🏾

Please review the Wa7 3rd gen please!

It'd be nicer if this is going to be headphoneshow's 2023 christmas give away. 😂

I had the opportunity to listen to this today. A very balanced tuning, but a bit underpowered for Susvaras still. And the idle noise level is unacceptably high for a unit at this price point. I’ll stick with my Bliss for Susvara duties. And after being fortunate enough to A/B this and a Feliks Envy, the Envy was a better match for my Atriums. Possibly one of the most pleasing listening experiences I’ve had.

Hi! For someone who is looking for the best of the best, how does it compare to the elite edition of the WA33?

Where did you find yourself on the volume knob on the ab1266 when listening to say rock ?

I went with a WA7 Firefly myself. Love how it sits on my desk and I don’t have the space for a huge setup right now. Would love to hear your take on the firefly!

Holy crap, that pendulum song made me have to eq the bass and the treble DOWN for the first time in my life xD (-2db shelf at 166 and -1 at 4k). I usually have to do exactly the opposite. Cool song tho.

The only thing I disklike about the build of the unit is the fact that they used a lower grit blasting media than they should have. Would of given the unit a sleeker look if they hadn't.

I hope you review the Pathos InPol Ear

1) So dynamic heaphones' impedance is non-flat vs frequency even if it's a low impedance headphone, such as 24-32 Ohm? (ISK HD9999, Fostex TH900 MK II, Denon AH-D9200 etc.) 2) Is it correct that for tube amps power output follows impedance output, so is higher for high impedance mode? (maybe thus preference for it also for planars) 2) How's the noise floor lvl for IEMs? 3) Did you overall prefer it over your SS setup? (currently Bliss or something else?)

+1 for Pendulum

compare to Felix Audio Amps??

is this available in the uk ?

1:50 Depends on the type of honey as well. Manuka honey has a high resistance and is overrated.

This is weird. I just watched your tutorial on room treatment, and then go on watching this. First one was very objective, while this was all subjective. You use lots or random audiophile buzzwords that could mean almost anything. Warm, lush, forward sounding, slow, fast, skull cracking slammy yadda yadda. Not sure what to think about this channel yet since you sometimes have really high quality content and other times you have just words.

Why make a tube amp in the first place or pursue a tube amp if not for the tube sound? I am so puzzled at why tube amp makers would even make something "like solid state". Like, why?

I couldn’t have that thing in my house. The huge gold colour knobs make this something only a Saudi princess would like.

you can tell he works hard on these..

Wow, and only $8,999?! You should do stand up 😂

This is one of the amps that I'd like to get in to try. Especially now that I have an AIC-10.

for 1266, aic10 or this which is better?

well Try the new Allnic HPA 10000 you will be amazed

The build quality is not 100% though. Play with that very loose power button, considering the cost of this thing, this is not good enough.

I thought you shouldnt be using planar headphones with tube amps?

It just needs some vajazzles on it

Ain't No Damn Way .

GM ☕️from Toronto . The moment I saw this on the Abyss site …it was love at first sight…is it perfect..no …but damn close. Oh, btw, sending my LCDX to get ready-tuned to make it a good less “wonky” 😎

Wow your favorite over WA33 elite, trafomatic primavera , and viva egoista 845.

A bit sad to see this reviewer doing infomercials on niche and luxury items. I can’t be the only who missed his interesting digital related videos…

It's so ugly

price is rly for rich snobs

If you need tubes to make your music sound good you're listening to the wrong music.