Just received a WOPL 700 II from Lee in a cabbage box!

laatsch55 said:
Seeing a California plate in our neck of the woods at this time of year is usually chesp entertainment.
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The first week of snow here in "da Yoop" is entertaining as well . . . We are a University town, and all the downstate and foreign "jeeniooses" that think they have winter driving skills and suitable vehicles have a very harsh introduction to reality . . . (as kids, I recall once sitting on a corner with score cards, judging the failed attempts to climb a primary hill (and sliding/backing down it). This is older, but a block from a best frieds house growing up:
 
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Lee, this WOPL kinda scares me sometimes. The speakers in my office are only 5.5 ft to the right and left of me in my chair. When I turn it on and I see the lights come on and I do not hear anything at all, no slight... Nothing from the speakers turned all the way down I wonder for a split second if something hasn't went wrong. Sitting that close and I have pretty good hearing I have always been able to hear something from the speakers. No matter what amp I have used... I ain't going to sit here and list them all because I ain't got all day and ain't nobody wants to read all that shit anyway but damn man...
 
Yeah, the WOPL black hole. Joe put in a lot of late nights getting the design there and cajoling the builders to up their wire discipline game in the beginning. It didnt happen overnight and it was an ongoing process. Still is...
 
TimD said:
The first week of snow here in "da Yoop" is entertaining as well . . . We are a University town, and all the downstate and foreign "jeeniooses" that think they have winter driving akills and suitable vehicles have a very harsh introduction to reality . . . (as kids, I recall once sitting on a corner with score cards, judging to failed attempts to climb a primary hill (and sliding/backing down it). This is older, but a block from a best frieds house growing up:
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Fucking precious!!!
 
James , that's also a pretty good indication you have that cable makin figured out...
 
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A few more notes about the WOPl. My opinion:
I noticed that yes certain instruments are standing out now that have not before. The performance sounds more realistic. Very, very clean sound. I never knew that these Polk Audio SDA 2b's wanted more power. Proven now beyond any doubt though. Cymbals finally stand out as they should. Background noise/instruments stand out very nicely. None of this fategeing... I should have stopped fighting with all this old shit years and years ago and simply bought the WOPL. The amplifier has finally given me the sound I have been looking for in Tube Amps and Transistor amplifiers for well forever. If I knew then what I know and hear now I would not have 20 amplifiers laying around here. I am selling a bunch of inferior equipment if anyone is looking. I have a PL-400 Series II in really nice shape. It shall be next in line to WOPL. Joe, you are a fucking miracle worker.
 
James..." sounds more realistic" i think that is my biggest thing, more lively...nope...realistic...realistic is the one followed closely by higher definition....
 
TimD said:
In Dallas (my prior residence) it seemed like 3 visible snowflakes resulted in the locals stripping the grocery stores bare, and heading for the ditches. For a northern native, it was like watching a Benny Hill skit (well, unless you had to be out on the road with them . . . ) *ZERO* concept of winter driving. Nada. Zilch. Zip. . . .
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Yeah what has become of the world?
The slightest pin drop and people are raiding shelves.
 
laatsch55 said:
Yeah, the WOPL black hole.
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Full WOPL upgraded amplifiers and the great Model ONE are "Dark" amplifiers. With power on, all cables connected, volume down, and close to the speakers - there is nothing there. No hum, no hiss, no buzz, no crackle, no pop, nothing. Does not matter if you just turned the amplifier on or it has been on all day.
Not many amplifiers can make that claim, especially tube amplifiers.
 
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