For me, Utopia and Stellia come really close and are a nice alternative. Stellia especially surprised me, it's more of a "commercial" product, but it can rock hard from a simple dongle ... it's actually mind bending what you can get with Stellia from Dragonfly Red when you have a 15k+ system...

Why do you like Elrogs? How do they compare to other 300Bs you tried?

Same for HA300MK2 🍻

To me it's like with dating ... at some point, you just can't be bothered to look for anything better 🤣 it will be too costly, too impractical, and you already have something that ticks most boxes :>

Great amp, great seller. GLWS. Buyer will not be disappointed :)

PayPal doesn't protect sellers outside US and UK sadly 😭

Btw even reading this brings back Susvara PTSD ... I'm so glad I'm out of that race 😂 TC is soooooo much easier to amp.

FWIW Oor worked for me a lot better with Susvara than Bliss ... But to get the proper upgrade I think you need a big boy amp like Envy or HA300 ... or maybe a speaker amp. Or maybe Impact+ in GSE will solve this for you. With Susvara you never know. I was really surprised by how it reacted to...

Choosing a cheaper solution is not the right mindset for a Susvara owner ... Susvara demands a blood sacrifice ! 😂 In all seriousness, Susvara demands every last bit of dynamics you can squeeze out of your chain, even 1db matters. It has this "wake up" point as far as I remember. The problem...

@idairyou helped me a lot with getting some tubes from the US. Very nice and helpful guy so buy with confidence. ER300B is a wonderful tube. I'm keeping mine :) GLWS!

TC and Utopia was exactly my solution. Didn't manage to test it with my current stack and I think it might be similar to yours with fully decked out HA300MK2.

100% my experience. Sold the Sus after 2 years of chasing dynamics 😅

Are you running with Hypsos? Using analogue volume, pro mode, experimented with HQ filters? How many hours do you have on the Wandla (and presumably Hypsos)? Bliss is a very capable amp but its very ... tame ... by design, so you need a sledgehammer of a dac to get dynamics from Susvara from it...

Ooof ... you sure its a dac not an amp problem? Are you using Susvara and Bliss by any chance to make this judgement?

I should warn you that if you keep them for another few months, you will most likely need a break from Taks, put them back in for a few months and be glad you didn't sell them. I already been through this ... 😅

Wow brave decision. ER is such a wonderful and unique tube ... also a bit like sitting on a landmine ... but a trully great sounding one 😅

Ah well, try it on your Envy. Utopia surprised me many times. None of the pairings you've listed does Utopia justice. On yours with WE, if you find synergising driver tubes Utopia shouldn't be far off Susvara with staging and detail. Obv different presentation in the end but same ballpark imo.

Yeah, no idea bc your Envy with WE should throw a nice wide stage on Utopia, way wider than shoulder width for me. Depth was always Utopias specialty. Ofc it's not HD800 / TC stage but it should be very decent size :thinking:

Did you actually spend time at home with Wandla and Hypsos? I think your initial assesment was just the Wandla with the brick psu with an assumption that Hypsos won't change much :thinking: I have zero glare and no stage issues on Utopia and TC and as 2 channel DAC it has deeper stage than May...

I did have both DACs for about a month, I think that's enough of AB and I was happy to keep Wandla and allow May to find a new home. Since then Wandla and Hypsos really came into it's own. If I haven't owned May for 2 years I would be tempted by it, but I'm passt that and can enjoy the...

I am rather impressed by the standard Wandla with Hypsos owning May previously. To my ears it's summit fi and sounds anything but a typical delta sigma / ESS. We can agree to disagree here 🤷‍♂️ Since my initial impressions which were already very positive it burned in a lot, lost any hint of...

Great tip about letting the tubes settle. I have the same experience.

Don't worry, we are all a little bit crazy here 😂

Why?

I always wanted to try the LCD4 but I couldn't get past the glued on pads and wooden build. Wooden LCD3 I once owned started cracking and disintegrating around hinges. Plus the weight, occasional driver failures and mixed record for customer service and I was always going for a different set ...