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what's going on everyone average consumer and you guys might have notice in some of my older videos that had an interesting cubed object on the left side of my desk well that's whoo audios wa7 fireflies and I think it's about time that I reviewed it for you guys so let's not waste any time let's get right into it all right guys here we have root audios wa7 fireflies a USB DAC and tube amp combo and amps are great because some headphones require quite a bit more juice to get the full depth of sound quality that you want from them as for DAX they're also known as digital to analog converters and to those who aren't sure what a DAC does in the simplest terms I can provide it converts digital signals to analog and through your amp it'll improve your sound quality and volume output of whatever you're listening to now the acts are found in just about every music playing device like your computer phone or even iPod if you still use one of those but they aren't that great in quality this is where something like the wa7 comes in the wa7 has a very compact footprint in the world of high-end heavy-duty docks and it features a cube design in a brushed aluminum body with a pure glass top encasing the tubes for protection which also adds quite a bit of heft to it although small this thing is by no means light which is good as it'll stand firmly wherever you place it one of my favorite things about its design and its aluminum body is how perfectly it fits with other products that I currently have on my best like my iMac another neat little touch is the slight glow you get from the tubes when it's powered on and it even looks pretty cool with the lights off now let's talk about the inputs and switches you'll find on this the front is pretty simple with a large volume valve a 3.5 millimeter and quarter-inch headphone jack in the back you'll have your USB and RCA inputs a source switch on the right and below you'll have a high and low switch to determine how much juice is used to power your headphones you're also gonna have a power adapter input and of course your on and off switch now this thing is a high end amp so it'll be able to power just about any headphones you come across now outside of being aesthetically pleasing this thing is quite a beast in the performance Department during my testing I got to try this out with the Sennheiser HD 700 and let me tell you this is some next-level listening the hd7 hundreds are open-back headphones and this was my first experience with open-back headphones and I've got to say I was very surprised and impressed the surprise came from these actually being open to sound and what I mean by that is these aren't meant to isolate sound from the outside or keep the sound from the headphones inside either now what this does is create an amazing soundstage when listening and for the folks not familiar with the term soundstage the soundstage will give you the ability to visualize the placement of musical instruments and vocalists and any sound you'd hear in your music that feeling of being at a concert or a live band is definitely achievable with these the best way I could describe it is if I were listening to music with other headphones with these I felt like I was actually in it now because of this I feel like I have to go get a pair of open-back headphones to add to my collection for some home listening of course now back to the performance of the wa7 paired with the HD 700 it really did feel like I was at a concert when listening to certain tracks and the wa7 provides really clean audio with virtually no background noise and of course for something like the HD 700 focal and instrumental separation is pretty damn good now the wa7 isn't only going super high-end headphones like the 700s I've tried them with a few of my favorites as well like the v-moda crossfade em 100's and even some in here's like the r IH 8010 Ives and I found that I had an awesome listening experience with whatever I threw at them now the wa7 isn't something that'll be picked up by your average person this is some pretty hardcore audiophile gear but if you take sound very seriously this is definitely a good investment from a looks and performance perspective now if you guys are interested in these I'll of course have links down below in the description for you guys to check them out now I have to let you guys know that this is my first experience with a really high-end DAC and amp so I'm not really sure how it compares to others in its category but it's absolutely safe for me to say that these have been a nice upgrade from my regular listening experience but that about wraps it up for this video guys hopefully you enjoyed it if you did be the cool guy that gives it a thumbs up and subscribe to the channel for more content from me and I'll catch you guys in the next video till then it's your average consumer base