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Tubes or not
You can buy a completely transparent DAC for less than $500, in some cases much less.  Tubes are not required. 
Let me know your choice please
Why? 
Why does my old CD player sound so much better than my new streamer?
Because you expected it to.  
I gre out of Be Tweeters
I doubt if you can tell one decent tweeter from another if they are competently implemented.  Most audiophiles just can’t stand not changing things. 
How many of you believe in MQA?
I don’t care about it.  It is a lossy method of squeezing a high rez file into a Redbook container.  Why?  There are plenty of high rez containers.  I can stream 4K video into my house.  High rez audio isn’t even a challenge.  I’m not sure resolut... 
Would switching amps make a big difference?
Most speakers are designed to approach a flat voltage response, not power, and amps to be a voltage source. If the source impedance of the amp is rather high (tubes) then there will be an HF roll off. The performance of a solid state amp might sou... 
Which Class D Amplifier? PS Audio, Ghent, Nord, Merrill or other???
Getting hung up on theoretical problems (all designs have them) without regard to the audibility of said problems is a waste of time.  Am another new convert to pro audio amps.  I have been listening to a Crown XLS1502 for the last three weeks dri... 
Phono cartridge suggestions sought
VM740ML and spend the $1000 you have left on something else.