Park, I have both these ICs in my system for different reasons.The Hero is,to my ears, dead neutral and disappears.The vdH integration was described in the TAS review as warm and tubey which is pretty accurate.I used it to warm up a rather mechanical sounding MF ss amp.Kind of reminds me of the sound of an old style Grundig tube table radio. My current favorite now is the Chris VenHaus Pulsar IC available direct from his website.Best i've heard. Hope this helps.
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