???Anyone Here UpGrade From Yaqin/Cayin/etc... To Another Tube Amp Considered Hi End???


Say something from Ayon,BAT,AR,Raven,Rogue,Unison etc....
Did you gain anything from the upgrade?Lower noise floor increasing low level resolution?Tighter more defined imaging & staging?Anything?
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just goes to show you how we get accustomed to what we have owned.  
owning a raven audio nighthawk and blackhawk i found the sound to be neutral, highly refined and colorful with outstanding transparency.  sounded spectacular with kef ls50 speakers. 
first and subsequent times hearing hegel amplifiers i thought they sounded obnoxious and closed.  bass was pounding and out of balance, midrange was smooth but lacked transpareny.  
i could never live with that kind of sound.