pavi

I can compare it to whatever I damn well please.

Are you in SoCal? If so a mini meet with a 2A3 AF is in the cards. Did you upgrade the caps too?

i’m in the midwest, unfortunately. didn’t upgrade the caps

@BillOhio it really does!

Holy balls, it’s alive! Awesome.

Naw man, go Big at the beginning and be done with it. You have an Aficionado on order, yeah?

I have to agree with @BillOhio. After owning 7 tube amps and 3 tube preamps the better the amp is built the better it will sound and better tubes make a significant difference. You need a very good 2A3. I have almost the entire family, let me know what you want and I'll give you a friend price.

craig is building me an aficionado, which is wonderful! i was thinking the studio, but he recommended the aficionado with the eml 300b mesh tubes

That's somewhat surprising. I thought utopia and hd800 favored similar touches of amplifiers.

I'm talking about cap rolling, it can be more subtle than some tube changes but overall the Jupiter caps are better than stock on technicalities alone.

How many years those caps last?

You should probably have them install Jupiter caps.../s...kinda lol
What headphones or speakers are you going to use?

utopia... lcd-4