Got my V8 yesterday and it's definitely a beast. Looks and feels great, but most importantly, it sounds great! Very clean and spacious with good imaging and positioning of instruments throughout the soundstage. I'll assume it's the improved noise filtering of the Level II at play, but this is easily the quietest tube amp I've owned - dead silent. As @vkenz said, it gets pretty hot, but it's what you would expect from all the power it's making.
Somewhat limited on tube combinations at the moment, but I just ordered some different pairs of 6080 and 12ay7 tubes which should arrive next week. For now, I'll just play around with what I've got and see what works best.
Somewhat limited on tube combinations at the moment, but I just ordered some different pairs of 6080 and 12ay7 tubes which should arrive next week. For now, I'll just play around with what I've got and see what works best.