Courtesty of @TaronL over at the headphones.com forum Hifiman Shangri-La Mini. Interesting! Looks like it has a companion amp also.

Hey @Abyss Headphones In the interview below about the Diana DZ it mentions "two exciting new headphones." Does that include the Diana DZ? Making the two headphone the Diana Closed (which is scheduled for around CanJam socal) and the Diana DZ? Understand you can't mention things specifically but...

Quoting from the website, so I'm guessing it is replacing the TC going forward. "The sound is full, spacious, and very nicely detailed, limited only by the connected electronics. Diana DZ offers the highest resolution available in the Diana line, providing beautiful imaging and realism to sound."

Curious to see how this turns out

Some more info https://abyss-headphones.com/collections/diana-headphones/products/abyss-diana-dz-luxury-audiophile-headphone

So the 300b amp I know we've heard it will need to be used with the transformer interface, but is the VM1a replacement a direct drive amp similar to the VM1a? It appears to have a female XLR plugged into it, so that makes me think it is, but also has a 1/4" output, so maybe it can do both? Does...

Though I don't know about the 4300E specifically, Audio Note UK (post Kondo Split) is one of the few, or perhaps only, that would be in a position to design a tube and have others build it. ANUK not only builds equipment, but has their own lines of parts (capacitors, transformers, resistors...

To be clear, I have no bias towards chinese tubes, or equipment in general, and I don't know why you would take that away from my original post in any way.

So far the differences are subtler than I thought they might be, but in terms of positives there is slightly more low end, slightly more harmonic richness/warmth (but not tons.) There also just seems to be a bit more "drive" to the sound overall, though thats sort of hard to quantify and a very...

I'm well aware PSVANE builds the 4300E, but its supposed to actually be a good sounding tube. It is also fully built to the specs and design given to them by AN UK and IIRC is using Molybdenum anodes, similar to the ER-300b-mo. The tubes I'm using currently are a pair of older Shuguang rebrand...

Very happy with the Supratek DHT running the 300b's thus far but I've only had a couple days with it. It came with a pair of Audio Note "Carbonized 300b" (not the good 4300e's) so I'm assuming they are a cheap low end chinese rebrand, but even with these there seems to be great promise...

Supratek DHT Preamp arrived today to try out. Will be interesting, especially once I get some decent 300b's in it. Going to try it into my Boulder amp and also the KGGG for E-stat duties for tasteful colouration (I hope.)

The Aegis really fits in with the wood cabinet and ZMF's. Hope you really enjoy it!

It will certainly be interesting. I'll have it on Monday, so should be able to report back soon with initial thoughts. Though, I won't have upgraded 300b's for a couple months, but I guess I'll find out eventually what the difference is. I'm very happy with my 1110 Boulder pre for straight up...

Theres a used one for sale currently, would save the wait time for a new one. https://www.usaudiomart.com/details/650093759-supratek-cabernet-dht-300b456sn7-tube-pre-amp/