I don’t believe headphones.com are a Lotoo dealer, so probably not. I can probably source one anyway, but if so it’d be a while before I got a chance to review it - I have quite the backlog of stuff I have auditioned but still need to write up*.
As for the Stellia with the N8 … it’s a fantastic pairing. I absolutely love the combination. And this applies regardless of whether you’re using the balanced solid-state output, which is the most accurate way to listen with these two units, or whether I feel like indulging in the richer, lusher, presentation from the N8’s single-ended “tube” output.
Most of my “listening for pleasure” time with the N8 has been split between the Stellia, the Vérité and the tia Fourté. All are a decadent experience. The N8 works beautifully with almost all my other headphones too, but the above are where my time has been focused so far.
And unlike with most DAPs, where once the “new toy” syndrome has worn off they tend to get relegated to being used pretty much only when needed (not because they aren’t engaging to listen to … I just typically find DAPs and IEMs to be fiddlier than I want to deal with if I don’t have to), the N8 has me grabbing it and my Stellia and heading outside to the deck just because I have some time where I can do so. And sometimes even when I don’t have the time for it!
The only headphones I’ve not found to pair that well with the N8 so far are the LCD-4 and Abyss AB-1266 Phi CC. This is purely about power. And both still sound very good out of the N8 - they just don’t hit their maximum potential without more power on tap (I could say the same about driving those particular headphones directly out of my DAVE, too).
And the Stellia, similarly, pair well with everything I’ve tried them with except for OTL tube amps, where they get very loose and excitable in the lower frequencies (which is completely expected for a low-impedance headphone on an OTL amp). Even with inexpensive setups, like the array of popular $200 stacks, the Stellia sound excellent, though they’re revealing enough of what drives them that they will make any shortcomings with such setups quite apparent (of course … you need to have heard them driven in more resolving/capable chains for that to apply).
*This is one reason why, going forward, my reviews are going to shift in focus to high-end gear - possibly just TOTL and flagship pieces - there’s just too much to keep up with otherwise.
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