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VU JÀDÉ AUDIO Lampizator Upgrades
@charliee - PM me and I can send you a DAC to listen to.   Happy Listening  
Which AMP to Keep ?
Sell them all and get an HK 16.  Have your tech upgrade the caps and a few resistors and you are all set.   Happy Listening.  
Supratek..Cabernet 6SN7 or Cabernet DHT
We build both a DHT 101D and 6SN7 preamps.  The 101D is my favorite but the WE replica tubes are expensive. I have only modified the Supratek 6SN7 preamps so I do not have more information for you on between the two.   Happy Listening.  
Burson OpAmps - Consensus?
We just dropped in a pair of Opamps into a Cary 306 SACD player with excellent results.  Not very expensive.  I have not compared those to anything but the stock ones in the Cary but it was a significant improvement in sound wuality.      
Speakers that are good with tubes
I have to disagree with some of the comments above.  There are plenty of great tube amps available.  Depending on the design is how they will handle bass, dynamic swings, and difficult speakers loads.  The Class A tube mono blocks we build have ou... 
Don’t buy used McCormack DNA 1990s amps
@soix I was responding to you original post "Because their input board is at the end of its useful life, and when it fails your amp is dead and not repairable by anyone — not even SMcAudio."  But I am always available to help anyone who needs repa... 
Please tell me the wait will be work it......my rack
Interesting enough, we use a piece of junk in our listening room with brick walls, we have no complaints from reviewers, or people who come to hear equipment in our Listening Room.  Go Figure.  
Seeking DAC using the ESS ES9038PRO, but not a streamer
@big_greg Sabre chips are not bright, it is the design that makes them sound that way.   @yada I could probably build a DAC to your specifications you can PM me for details.  Happy Listening.  
Don’t buy used McCormack DNA 1990s amps
@soix - you cannot say that the board cannot be repaired by anyone.  Do you do repair work yourself?  Any product can be repaired unless the parts cannot be identified or there are no replacement parts available.  That being said, you do not have ... 
life span/failure rate of filter capacitors?
The power capacitors in the power supply and in the other areas of the power supply usually begin to swell up and then that is a pretty good sign to replace them.  The other reason to replace them is sound quality.  I just recently upgraded the po... 
Dac Upgrade
get the Halo and send it to me to upgrade.  It will better anything mentioned above by some large margin.  Since my company builds reference audio components you need to tell us what type of sound you like otherwise all the recommendations are use... 
Amp for Vandersteen 2ci
I can repair upgrade any audio component.  If I was you, try and find an old BEL power amplifier class A.  They sound amazing in stock form and can be upgraded for even better sonic improvement.  I would also consider a Counterpoint power amp.  Th... 
Treble and Tweeter trends over the past few decades
It depends on what model amplifiers from each manufacturer you used.  CJ was always on the warm sounding but usually lacked details.  Some of the older Audio Research amplifiers like the D-79B amplifiers were really good back in the day and with u... 
DAC recommendations
My recommendation is to send your tube DAC to me for upgrading.  There are plenty of parts options that can be used to change the sound to what you are looking for.  Stop chasing gear.  Happy Listening.  
I have NOVA V's and I am not happy
Stop using cables as tone controls.  The Sonus are in no way bright sounding speakers.  It is not the room either.  It is the equipment you are using.  We have Vivid speakers in our Listening Room with a brick wall behind them.  No room treatments...