Okay, got a chance to listen to the Pass Labs X150.8 and the Benchmark AHB2 at @llamaluv's place. Comparing them with the Studio Jr driving the susvara, the major difference appears in bass and treble. The speaker amps are a little warmer, with more punchy bass, while the Studio Jr has less...

I haven't tried any speaker amp by myself yet, although I'm super interested in trying. I have a friend who has listened to both my Studio Jr and his speaker amp. He commented that the Jr is more transparent while the speaker amp might have more power and being more dynamic. I think either a...

I've never heard the ECZD, but have heard the ECBA. Studio Jr has more power to drive planar headphones.

Recently got my newly built EC Studio Jr. It really drives the Susvara superbly!

Get a pair of AKG K1000 and you will know the largest soundstage on headphones. But yeah, probably K1000 is not regarded as standard headphone.

I live on campus so move a lot during each vacation. This weight is really inconvenient.

Ben from Mojo-Audio kindly lent me his illuminati for trial listening and I would like to post some impressions here. The illuminati is regarded as the ultimate linear power supply for MicroZOTL2. It is also owned by a lot of MZ2 owners here who tried out Ben's ultimate upgrade program. I...

Getting a second hand EDX might be a good choice.

I am interested in whether there's a upgrade program for our old users...

I believe these are after market. Mine has the stock ones, which are black. LTA renewed some parts of the MZOTL2 some time late last year.

This one I brought from amazon works fine.

Okay now I get what you guys are talking about. I think I probably remembered wrongly and the goldmund was just connecting to a digital source. Dave was just happened to be turned on at the same time. But I did listen to Dave itself drive Utopia and I still think it's good, just not that good...

Just used the amp part of Goldmund. I don't think it was doing anything from the DAC part. Don't know why so many people are arguing about this.

  You definitely need the 430HA. I just heard the DAVE+Utopia yesterday and DAVE itself can't drive Utopia very well, but is superb when paired with a decent amplifier. (The amp I heard was Goldmund Telos THA-2)

Maybe you should review the Tia Fourte. 

I used to own both Mjolnir 2 and the MicroZOTL 2. After getting the MZ2 I sold my Mjolnir 2 immediately. Both of them are good and transparent. I also have friend who listened to both and decided to keep the Mjolnir 2, so it might be a personal taste thing.    What I can tell you is that...

Some friend told me that they are mostly equivalent. Maybe he was wrong.

12AU7 and 12AT7 are equivalent. I don't know if Mullard has 12AT7 though because I searched a lot and there was only 12AU7.

Try switching the Mullard 12AU7, which is what I am using. The sound is still open and clear but with more lushness.

I heard a similar setup with DCS Vivaldi yesterday. It was simply amazing. But it was a shame that dave wasn't there. For the flat sound of Vivaldi, it could be due to the upsampler, which upgrade any music file into DSD. The setup I heard was also using the Aurender music server, which I found...

The upgraded tubes are installed. You won't have the original tubes.

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No more Jade, very sad story.    The guy who designed Jade is probably not even part of HEK and SL, sad again.

What USB related products did you try? Any comparison with this one?

Clicked around for like half an hour, didn't find any "dragon eggs". Maybe it's just too hard for me.