I recently bought and used a roll of ASA-CF, I did not dry it before hand as it came out of the vacuum pack. I very rarely dry fresh filament. It went thru my AMS with no problems and I have printed about 10 hours worth.
As it is a brittle product (more so than PLA-Cf etc) I think drying it makes it more brittle. Just a slight deflection when handling leads to breaks.