Sorry to chime in late, but though I’d contribute since I just compared these two.
While I have not tried Valhalla 2, I did recently move from Valhalla 1s to Wireworld Platinum Eclipse 8 in 3 places: 1) Phono Preamp (CI Audio PEQ1> Levinson Ref 32 (RCA) 2) Auralic Vega G2.2 > Levinson Ref 32 (XLR) and 3) Levinson Ref 32 > Levinson 532 Amp ( (XLR).
In my system the Valhalla was good: clear and transparent but a bit dry and lean.
In each application the Platinum Eclipse 8 brought out more detail, more transparency and blacker backgrounds. In short, much more you are there rather than you are listening to a good stereo.
YMMV.