i agree with Cincy bob that the darTZeel will be happy on the WP8. i have heard a number of different speakers with the darTZeel and the dart has always had that 'live-ness' and 'musicality'. what the dart excells at will come thru; which is to sound like music and not have it's own character. it won't sound solid state and won't have any roundness of tubes.
i've owned WP 3/2's, 5.1's and 6.0's and am familiar with WP7's and WP8's. they are speakers which can play to an amp's strengths (the WP8 even more so). there will be amps which can play louder with more 'weight' and control the bass better to some degree; but there will be trade-offs compared to the dart in other areas of clarity and sweetness in the highs, wonderfull textural nuance, microdynamics and bass texture.
i do expect that the dart can deliver low, powerfull bass on the WP8, but some amps can deliver 'more' of it with greater ease. a case of degrees. yes; if you are a 'demo-bass' guy who likes to hear how loud an amp can play on a demo disc you can find the limits of the dart's performance envelope. but at music listening levels this is not an issue. to have a 'head-banging' amp you (generally) must drag all that circutry around and always listen to your music thru it. one must choose.
this is no different than using an SET on X-2's. can 18 SET watts on a pair of X-2's do everything that 500 watts can do? no; but do you care?
i've owned WP 3/2's, 5.1's and 6.0's and am familiar with WP7's and WP8's. they are speakers which can play to an amp's strengths (the WP8 even more so). there will be amps which can play louder with more 'weight' and control the bass better to some degree; but there will be trade-offs compared to the dart in other areas of clarity and sweetness in the highs, wonderfull textural nuance, microdynamics and bass texture.
i do expect that the dart can deliver low, powerfull bass on the WP8, but some amps can deliver 'more' of it with greater ease. a case of degrees. yes; if you are a 'demo-bass' guy who likes to hear how loud an amp can play on a demo disc you can find the limits of the dart's performance envelope. but at music listening levels this is not an issue. to have a 'head-banging' amp you (generally) must drag all that circutry around and always listen to your music thru it. one must choose.
this is no different than using an SET on X-2's. can 18 SET watts on a pair of X-2's do everything that 500 watts can do? no; but do you care?