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Japanese tube amps. Wavac, Air Tight, Audio Tekne, Komuro etc.
Yes I do! Born out of a desire to experiment and restore on a budget... https://www.audiogon.com/systems/11941  
Has it all been worth it?
Only you can answer that as it's a singular perspective that we all have.  For me, with my small budget, DIY speaker builds and skip rescued tube amp restoration, and repurposed 90s sampler as a DAC, it's been very 'worth it' ! Confirmed in full ... 
Japanese tube amps. Wavac, Air Tight, Audio Tekne, Komuro etc.
inna, It’s 20 watts per channel with 8 and 16ohm taps off some top class and quite substantial output transformers. I have built my own speakers: A pair of 15ohm LS3/5As from Falcon Acoustic kits, and to run in parallel with them, I converted a pa... 
Upgrading specific components in a tube amplifier
Having overhauled a vintage tube amp from the chasis down, I would say the 3 most noticeable component improvements were the big smoothing caps, any  old wax caps and  the big one... tubes!  It was obvious when it happened but it took me 4 years t... 
Is there any such thing as a bad sounding DAC these days?
I use a modified and expanded Yamaha A3000 sampler I bought in 1997 as a DAC because it is simply the best sounding piece digital conversion kit I have ever heard... A sampler is after all; a DAC on steroids.   
Japanese tube amps. Wavac, Air Tight, Audio Tekne, Komuro etc.
I am totally in love with my Trio W-41, An EL84 push pull integrated,made in Japan in 1963, it needed a complete overhaul and a full compliment of vintage Matsushita 12AX7 and EL84 before it really sounded amazing. A labour of love that has really... 
R2R next? Don't like ESS
@martinman There is an alternative... If like me you understand that with music playback anything beyond 24bit 48Khz is not going to increase musicality, then you may be interested in the path I have taken with streaming. I use a Yamaha A3000 samp...